On Wed, 2003-03-26 at 18:53, stefmit wrote: > 1. I love Mandrake, and as such I was probably among the first to order (as I > learned from this list - better directly from mandrakestore) the 9.1 package, > BUT - anxious like everyone here - decided and obtained also the downloadable > ISOs ... and ran from work back home to play with them ... > > 2. Here I am - at home - with one of my PCs that I really can take apart and > play with any time - running a previous DVD install of Mandrake (the > workstation DVD that came with my previously 9.0 server purchase). I chose to > upgrade to 9.1 using the fresh CDs - put them in - run the upgrade option - > BINGO! First hand experience with 9.1 upgrade: everything ran as smooth as it > can get, and everything I can see right now came back up fine. Will check all > details later, of course. So ... so far - thus - as an American I can only > say (once again, this time about software;>): VIVE LA FRANCE!!! ;) > > 3. So - still having some time in hands (before the wife figures out the > lights in my office, and walks in and "reboots" me, or "installs son in my > lap, to clean his backplane") I decided to install some programs that I > didn't have before (just for testing purposes), based on the newly/refreshed > updated configuration sites for urpmi, from the good old trusted > http://plf.zarb.org/~nanardon/index.php (this time for 9.1, of course, having > previously removed the 9.0 entries). And here comes my question: whatever > packages I choose to download, whether downloadable from an "unsupported" > (plf or cooker) site, or installable from the new 9.1 CDs, I am being asked > for the CDs of 9.1 (understandably), after which I am being asked for the 9.0 > DVD. Is this normal? (of course I could remove the 9.0 DVD from the urpmi > config, but I thought of leaving it there for now ... just a feeling about > this being an upgrade ...) > > All in all - great product, once again! I like it even better now ... even if > I am still running my favorite iceWM ... I will probably "bite" on the 3.1 > KDE sometimes in the weekend, and expect even more pleasant surprises (at > least from what I've been reading here). > > Stef
Stef if you go into /etc/urpmi and edit the file urpmi.cfg you'll see all the possible "sites" and drives urpmi will access. Anything you don't won't want it to use just ad the line "ignore" (without the quotes) at the end. Then it won't ask for them again. James
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