On Tue, 2002-11-26 at 10:31, Todd Lyons wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Jack Coates wrote on Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 09:37:53PM -0800 : > > > > > > Configuration is in /etc/urpmi. Data is in /var/lib/urpmi. > > I agree in principle, but I also feel that if this were truly the case, > > backing up and restoring /etc/urpmi/ or mailing someone an entry from > > /etc/urmpi/urpmi.cfg should be enough to get a working system. > > If I email to you my /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf and commonhttpd.conf, > does that mean that you can serve all the same webpages as me? No, > because I didn't send you all the data in /var/www/html. The config is > just a config. The data is just data. The config ties the data to the > service, but if one exists without the other, it doesn't work properly. > wget -R, bwah-hah-ha! Seriously, point taken and the concession below is what I'm getting at -- in my experience, urpmi will fail to work completely if there's a source in urpmi.cfg that isn't matched by a hdlist in /var/lib/urpmi, and that's the problem. It should spit an error to stdout and move on to the next entry instead of breaking with status 1.
> Think of the data in /var/lib/urpmi/ as a flat file database. My > concession is that the urpm tools should detect that there is a list > file but ho hdlist, it should offer to you the opportunity to properly > integrate it (ie download/update the missing files) and regen its > config. The only problem is that it needs to have some sort of timeout > because many people (including myself) run these programs in scripts. > If there's no way I can tell it the info it needs, then it will not be > able to complete which means after a few days, my load average is at 50 > or so and my machine dies. > That sort of behavior is a feature, right? :-) > Blue skies... Todd > - -- > MandrakeSoft USA http://www.mandrakesoft.com > Mandrake: An amalgam of good ideas from RedHat, Debian, and MandrakeSoft. > All in all, IMHO, an unbeatable combination. --Levi Ramsey on Cooker ML > Cooker Version mandrake-release-9.1-0.1mdk Kernel 2.4.20-0.4mdk > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQE9474Ulp7v05cW2woRAuSuAJ4l0pYqlUSdKFxn5G8t7OgwZqr5bgCguE2u > xfd/s5sNcFMrQZytAgI6xYM= > =AY8D > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > ---- > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture...
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