Ok... finally got the manual stuff to run smoothly...

Samba and Webmin are working fine.

Thx to all who helped!
PM


On Thursday 13 February 2003 09:43 am, Kaj Haulrich wrote:
> 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 unusable/disappeared/outdated sources ?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.
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