On 10 June 2011 16:46, James Kerr <[email protected]> wrote: > On 10/06/11 15:27, Oliver Burger wrote: >> >> James Kerr<[email protected]> schrieb am 10.06.2011 >>> >>> Even though backports are disabled rpmdrake can display a list of >>> available backports. (The sources are automatically updated by >>> mgaonline.) >> >> I make you parden, but: no! >> >> When a repo is disabled it doesn't get updated automatically and its >> packages are not to be found in rpmdrake. >> Did you confuse "disabling repos" and "marking a repo for updates" >> (sorry, me doesn't know the exact English strings). >> >> >> So you have to enable the backports repos and even though you don't >> "mark them as update repos", urpmi will ignore that (rpmdrake won't >> but urpmi will) and will update everything from those repos... >> > > I meant exactly what I wrote. Select Backports from the first filter in > rpmdrake and packages from disabled backports sources will be displayed. > > Check /var/log/auth.log to see what mgaonline is doing. > > Jim > >
Jim is right; rpmdrake treats "backports" in a special way, and they do get updated even when they're disabled. urpmi won't install packages from them by default (unless you explicitly enable them or use e.g. 'urpmi --searchmedia Core\ Backports'); rpmdrake can show packages from "disabled" backports repos when you select the "Backports" filter, assuming they were correctly updated by mgaonline which is what mgaonline does by default. -- Ahmad Samir
