Another thing worth mentioning is that urpmi has a parallel install mode that
allows you to update your whole network of Mandrake machines with one command
from one computer. From the urpmi man doc's.
--parallel
activate distributed execution of urpmi to other machines (it is
mandatory that urpmi is installed but it is not necessary to
have media defined on any machines). The parameter given after
--parallel is an alias name defining which extension module to
use by urpmi (currently urpmi-parallel-ka-run or urpmi-parallel-
ssh) and which machines should be updated, this alias is defined
in the file /etc/urpmi/parallel.cfg as described below.
On Monday 24 Feb 2003 6:11 pm, you wrote:
> On Monday 24 Feb 2003 5:08 pm, you wrote:
> > What were the URPMI con's again?? ;)
>
> I have no Idea. :-)
> I forgot to mention that urpmi can be used to work out dependences and
> complie Source RPMS So if you really really want to you can download the
> packages and compile them for your machine which would allow you to use
> gcc-3.2's -march=XXX -o3 flags . In theory you could install a minamilistic
> installation and the download all the *.src.rpm pacakges's. Dump them into
> a local directory create a hdlist.cz (the data file that contains the
> details of the packages available at that location to urpmi this can be
> done as lots of non mdk people are running there own repositories) and then
> point urpmi to the directory containing the *.src.rpm's and the hdlist.cz
> set the flags and compile. Mandrake linux 9.0 compiled for K7 or P4
> anyone? I'm not about to try due to a lack of harddrive space and a slow
> machine (450Mhz k6-2) but it should work some one got abit of spare time
> and a fast machine on there hands want to try?
>
> > Chad wrote:
> > >On Monday 24 Feb 2003 2:38 pm, you wrote:
> > >>don't most rpm systems now come with automatic updaters?
> > >>e.g. mandrake - urpmi, redhat - up2date, connectiva, - apt-rpm. suse -
> > >>yast online update etc etc.
> > >>does urpmi work jason?
> > >
> > >urpmi uses a slightly different system which has it's pros and cons.
> > >With urpmi the repositories are mirrored by lots of different groups
> > > which means that you can generally find a local Urpmi source for
> > > updates and packages. e.g. tranzpeer http://debian.attica.net.nz/
> > > maitains a local mirror for Mandrake (along with gentoo and others No
> > > RH though ;-)). All you have to do is add the path to the updates
> > > folder for your dist version or a RPM folder and the package list to
> > > urpmi. Urpmi then downloads a list of the updates and other pacakges
> > > avaliable along with a description of each update or package. After
> > > that updating is quite easy if you here they've updated a package you
> > > can tell urpmi to update the repository file list and do a search for
> > > the update. Or you can use Mandrake Update which checks to see if your
> > > list of updates is upto date then provides you with a GUI that has a
> > > list of all avaliable updates and a description/explanation of what
> > > they do or fix. You choose the packages you want to update and click
> > > update it'll then download the updates and any updated dependences for
> > > those packages. Thirdly you can simply use the command "urpmi --update
> > > --auto-select --auto" which will simply download and install all the
> > > current updates avaliable for your system with out prompting you for
> > > anything. The command of course can quite easily be set as a cron or at
> > > job to be done automatically every few days, hours what ever you
> > > prefer.
> > >Urpmi is also used to install new packages and there dependences simply
> > > choose the pacakges you want to install and urpmi will work out the
> > > dependences they need to run and the correct order in which they're to
> > > be installed. urpmi repositories are also used alot by the mandrake
> > > community with several groups or individuals runing there own ones with
> > > a variety of software that mandrake doesn't supply or newer versions of
> > > software that mandrake is currently testing or waiting for the next
> > > release before including it. All support dependency resolution and all
> > > can be added to urpmi's database of installable packages allowing them
> > > to be easily installed from within Mandrakes Software installation
> > > (rpmdrake/gurpmi) program or using urpmi at the command line. For
> > > example I've got several non mandrake urpmi sources/repositories set up
> > > (easy to do urpmi.addmedia name sourcepath) plf, texstar and several
> > > others. If I wanted to install mplayer (mandrake hasn't released a
> > > version for Mandrake 9.0) all i have to do is type " urpmi mplayer " as
> > > root (or select it in Software installer ) at the command line and
> > > urpmi will download the plf mplayer packages and dependences and
> > > install them in the correct order. If several different sources have
> > > the same package avaliable but different versions you can simply
> > > specify which source you want the packages from.
> > >Urpmi's a pretty neat tool it might not be quite as good as apt-get
> > > (which I've never used) but still it does whats needed. And I've yet to
> > > have it stuff up my dependencies (I've used it to install and set up
> > > kde3 in Mandrake 8.2 which came with kde 2.2)
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