On Saturday 28 Jun 2003 7:37 pm, Curt Tresenriter wrote:
> Just as I was about to go to town on this sylpheed tarball, I read
> Eric's post on 'make install' - then Derek's page on checkinstall.
> Decided that was a good idea 9building an RPM from a tarball) so I did
> urpmi checkinstall - it reported two dependencies, I said yes and it
> failed saying some files were missing and that I might want to update my
> urpmi database. So I said 'urpmi.update local' tried urpmi checkinstall
> again and get the same message.
> I must be missing something here - besides the files, which are:
>
> /var/cache/urpmi/rpms/libcheckinstall1-1.5.3-1mdk.noarch.rpm
>     /var/cache/urpmi/rpms/checkinstall-1.5.3-1mdk.noarch.rpm
>
> Where do I go from here?
> thanks
> Curt

Your local CD contents never change so there is no point updating 'local'
Online sources however do change. So you need to run 
urpmi.update -a 
occasionally

derek
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