On Friday 25 Oct 2002 1:06 am, Robert Delaporte wrote: > I have seen a couple mentions in news groups comparing urpmi to apt-get. I > have debian on my other box just for learning reasons, and I cant see urpmi > being even close. I have tried putting different sources on my list, but > it either cant connect half the time or it cant get the required > dependacies. Is there anyone with a sample urpmi setup that works well? > > Thanks, > > Rob
I have also been playing with Debian recently, and so far my impression has been that it is very similar to urpmi. The debian servers seem to be faster responding, probably because they are dedicated servers rather than the public servers Mandrake uses. However in terms of managing packages and resolving dependencies they seem very similar. I think where Mandrake falls down is in not predefining or publishing a set of update sources other than the security update source so most users never discover what a great tool it is for keeping your system up to date. Also some of the public mirrors are truly awful, leading users to assume urpmi is not working. I think Mandrake should delete some mirrors from the list and perhaps introduce some dedicated servers, at least for Mandrake Club As for recommendations. Here are the sources I use. The rediris mirror is very fast, (but if I keep telling people it soon will not be :) For Applications in the 9.0 Contrib snapshot urpmi.addmedia contrib ftp://ftp.rediris.es/pub/linux/distributions/mandrake/9.0/contrib/RPMS with ./synthesis.hdlist2.cz For official Mandrake updates urpmi.addmedia --update updates ftp://ftp.rediris.es/pub/linux/distributions/mandrake/updates/9.0/RPMS with ../base/hdlist.cz For the PLF archive of patented and 'illegal' applications urpmi.addmedia plf http://www.zoreil.com/mirrors/www.plf.org/9.0 with hdlist.cz For Texstars famous RPMS (see forum on www.pclinuxonline for details) urpmi.addmedia texstar ftp://ftp.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/contrib/texstar/linux/distributions/mandrake/9.0/rpms with ./hdlist.cz For commercial apps on Powerpack CDs (club membership required) urpmi.addmedia mandrake_club http://my_username:my_password@;www.mandrakeclub.com/downloads2/comm/9.0/i586 with ./hdlist.cz For RPMS made by Club members. (no membership required) urpmi.addmedia club.contrib ftp://ftp.rediris.es/pub/linux/distributions/mandrake-devel/unsupported/MandrakeClub/9.0/i586/ with ./hdlist.cz You should remember to 'update' those sources which are liable to change before searching for applications, or else it may not find the dependencies it thinks are there. The command urpmi.update -a will update all non-removable media. Putting it into a daily cron job will keep you up to date. HTH derek
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