Just my two cents, but I've always found Kpackage to be far easier to deal
with.
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Mark
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On Fri, 1 Jun 2001, Dan Swartzendruber wrote:
> On Fri, 1 Jun 2001, Civileme wrote:
>
> > > ... so, how do i get the db recreated? it never seems to want to
> > > read the info from the two cds :(
> > Put CD1 in and in a superuser terminal....
> >
> > rpm -e --nodeps rpmdrake-1.3-49mdk.rpm
> > cd /mnt/cdrom/Mandrake/RPMS
> > rpm -ivh rpmdrake-1.3-49mdk.rpm
>
> i did this. it never touched the /var/lib/urpmi directory. i even
> tried deleting and re-adding the two cdroms as sources, but that
> doesn't help because:
>
> unable to take medium "CD 1 Installation CD (x86) (cdrom1)" into account
> as no list file [/var/lib/urpmi/list.CD 1 Installation CD (x86) (cdrom1)]
> exists
> unable to take medium "CD 2 2nd Installation CD (x86) (cdrom2)" into
> account as
> no list file [/var/lib/urpmi/list.CD 2 2nd Installation CD (x86) (cdrom2)]
> exists
>
> i did update rpmdrake to 1.3-52 from the ftp site. surely there's a
> way to regenerate /var/lib/urpmi from scratch without doing a reinstall?
>
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