Hi all, I read this one with interest..
I was having many problems with rpmdrake and MandrakeUpdate, So in my wisdom (read lack-thereof) I updated my mandrake 8.1 to the following: kernel 2.4.16-11 (with initscript and such.) urpmi-3.1-2mdk wget-1.7.1-3mdk rpm-4.0.3-0.34 with all dependencies filled. (no need to use force or nodeps.) ie rpmtools, curl, popt rpm-devel all were updated to fill dependencies. Now rpmdrake works, (ie it displays) but it won't read any of my sources and I can use it for nothing. Ditto with MandrakeUpdate, it works, but can't add souces or anything. Should I downgrade everything back again and try again? or is there a way to get the cooker tools to rebuild the old source lists to its latest methods? Driving me nuts just trying to get this thing to work, which is why I did all this in the first place. any thoughts would be much appreciated. (incidently, if I should downgrade everything back to standard 8.1, whats the rpm line I need to do this? (I can't remember) Many thanks, rgds Frank -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Charles A Edwards Sent: Monday, 31 December 2001 8:39 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] help with urpmi please On Mon, 31 Dec 2001 11:29:11 +0000 bascule <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hi charles, > i am running cooker with 2.4.16 -11, i did what you described (though i > wasn't having exactly the same problem) no joy, urpmi still goes through all > of the rpms specified in the command line and at the end it says: > found 3424 headers in cache > removing 3424 obsolete headers in cache > > and leaves me with an 'empty source' > > is it possible that the functioning of urpmi has changed? adding a source on > the net requires specifying a hdlist but locally i like to miss out this so > that the source includes all the rpms in cooker i.e.: > # urpmi.addmedia localcooker file://mandrake/cooker/ > with no mention of a hdlist, is this still meant to work? because i cannot > get it to, Urpmi has changed as to how it handles the source. As best as I understand it now operates at its own descretion as to the fetching and listings of available pkgs this to correct a problem in the previous release with using systhesis only rather than hdlist. I am GUI man so I stick with rpmdrake and have used it only for ftp or cooker sources. My only attempt at a local source was from cd-rom and this failed with unable to read hdlist. It could very well be that rather than a procedure problem using urpmi that it is a problem in the build. I would post to cooker and hopefully Francois will respond. Charles
Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
