On Thursday 13 February 2003 04:16 pm, Tom Brinkman wrote: > On Thursday February 13 2003 09:35 am, Kaj Haulrich wrote: > > Let us - very politely - ask the proponents of the new > > rpmdrake/urpmi/gurpmi how they manage to get rid of > > unusable/disappeared/outdated sources ? > > > > Tom : are you here ? > > > > Kaj Haulrich. > > Well, here's how I do it. su to root in a terminal > and type 'edit-' then hit the <Tab> key. The command > will auto complete to 'edit-urpm-sources.pl', and press > <Enter>. That starts Software Sources Manager (SSM) as > root. > > Then you can use the little GUI to remove the > source(s) by hi-liting them (IIRC, one at a time), and > pressing the 'Remove' button. When you're done, you must > press the 'Save and quit button'. > Yes, been there, done that. However, the sources are still displayed and somehow still interacts with *urpmi.update -a. What we want - that's Patrick and me - is to get rid of the sources and start over. Patrick seems to have problems getting the sources right, possibly because the script I provided somehow messed things up on his system. I feel guilty and I'm trying to mimic his problem.
> You can also just uncheck the [ ] box by the source > under the 'Enabled?' heading, to disable that source. > Again you must exit with the 'Save and quit button', > otherwise you've done nothin ;) > OK, but that doesn't get rid of the sources either. > Similar scenario for adding or editing sources. My > usual user errors with sources are typo's (damn little > gtk fonts!), or not realizing the mirror I chose is the > problem. I've also found that when udating from > mirrors, unless you need the installation CD's as > sources, it's better to disable or remove them. > Agreed. Especially those damned differences about the points (../) from source to source. I have to go to the actual site every time to find those *hdlist.cz*'s. > But I don't havt'a fool with sources very often, and > I've always added them on the CL (urpmi.addmedia). Since > the last time I've become aware of a new tool, > urpmi.setup. You'll need the rpm for it, > urpmi.setup-0.4.2-1mdk, which I believe is for 9.1. I > suspect it'll most likely run fine on older Mdk > versions. I plan to switch to using it next time. For > one it does an automatic mirror lookup appropriate for > your system, including non-Mdk ones like PLF. IE, no > need to paste URL's into SSM, or onto the CL. It'll also > remove sources. I think urpmi.setup just might replace > SSM, at least for me ;) Well, I'll try to get hold of this *urpmi.setup* knowing that some people here had big-time troubles installing something from 9.1 upon 9.0. But what the heck, 9.1 will enter my box very soon anyway :-) Thanks Tom. Kaj Haulrich. =========================================== Powered by Linux - Mandrake 9.0 Registered Linux user # 214073 at http://counter.li.org Source : my 100 % Microsoft-free personal computer. ===========================================
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