Yup, good idea, I'm on ALL of the Mandrake lists eg. Cooker, Newbie, Expert, Changelog etc., they are a GREAT source of support, I agree. I am testing my rsync theory now at home. I think URPMI does support rsync mirror sources as they are listed on the nanardon page in the mirror lists. And you are an expert on URPMI, at least compared to me ;)

Cheers

Jason

Chad wrote:
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


  

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