On Tuesday 25 Feb 2003 9:21 am, you wrote: > Yup, that is the beauty of URPMI when trying to administer large > networks of boxen. > Some questions (since you seem to be our local urpmi expert =) though. > If you use the sources page > http://plf.zarb.org/~nanardon/index.php#third > and you select an rsync mirror, it will be autoconfigured to only > download the pieces of packages needed for updates right?? Also, does > urpmi auto resume or do you have to restart it if you lose the net > connection?? URPMI doesn't seem to work very well over a dialup > connection and when setting up my sources, I have lost the net > connection (yesterday) and then it did not autoresume. I had to kill the > terminal and kill the urpmi.addmedia process to unlock the urpmi > database so I could restart the source setup. However, on my work conn > (256k) it works flawlessly and FAST. > Ideas and thoughts?? > Cheers > Jason
I don't think it supports resume. As for Rsync I don't think urpmi supports accessing mirrors though Rsync. I think you'd have to creat a local mirror on your harddrive and run Rsync on that to keep it upto date with the online Mirrors. You could then set urpmi to use that as it's source. But I'm not really sure. By the way I'm hardly a urpmi expert just some one who's used it abit. Best place to find out stuff about Mandrake and it's tools is the mandrake users forum. http://www.mandrakeusers.org or through one of the Mandrake mailing lists. Chad
