Ignore the past and you will fail Ignore the future and you have already failed. ----- Original Message ----- From: "David E. Fox" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, February 02, 2004 22:22 Subject: Re: [newbie] Ready for upgrade?
> On Thu, 29 Jan 2004 20:24:41 -0600 > "Hoyt Bailey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > problems(that is some update list). The contrib and update servers > > both failed to read the synthesis file so they errored out and didnt > > complete. > > Well, it's not the changes, it's all the packages and their dependencies > that's in 9.2 main. Seems about right, though. > > > I have a few questions: > > > 1. Can I just re-do the contrib and update servers without worring > > about main and does it matter in what order they are done? > > Sure. You can say urppmi.update -a, which gets everything (but once you > get main, you don't really need to update again), or urpmi.update > contrib and/or update. You really should have an update branch defined. > > > 2. Are there other servers that have this information? > > Yes. You might have selected the first ones available. If one doesn't > work, like it errors out doing the synthesis and so forth, the biggest > reason is that it could not connect to the mirror. It took me a bit of > time to realize that, because it's not really clear (it does not say > "server full" like FTP does). If you want to verify, try an ftp in > another window to the update site and see if you can connect. Sometimes > you can't. For instance, I usually use uninett.no and sunet.se. Those > have worked pretty well for me over the past year or so. Some of the US > mirrors are really slow, FWIW. > > If you have trouble with a specific mirror, my advice would be to > urpmi.removemedia on whatever branch that mirror carries, and then run > urpmi.addmedia, using a different mirror. > > Since you're upgrading to 9.2, most of this stuff is pretty stable (as > rpm versions don't change, i.e., the changes are going in cooker). > > Once you have downloaded the hdlist and synthesis files for each branch > successfully, now comes the interesting part = updating, that is. > urpmi.update --auto-select takes care of that nicely, or should. > Depending on what you're upgrading from, you could expect anywhere from > 300-600 megs worth of changed files (also depending on how much you > installed from the previous version). > > > > 3. I dont speak mandrake yet what is the meaning of hdlist and > > synthesis, I know what list means and understand synthesis, I dont > > think they mean what I understand. > > hdlist is (as I understand it) the list of files that are on the CDs in > a compressed form, or actually all 3 cds if you're coming from a urpmi > site. IOW the names of all rpms in the distribution. The synthesis > contains, I think,the interdependencies. Which would make sense, as both > comprise a database of sorts that describes Mandrake 9.2 (in this > instance) and the system is resolving your database (in /var) with its > data. > > > 4. A minor problem. The applets for KPPP in KDE or Gnome dont work > > they > > I'll pass on that one since I have DSL, haven't modemed in over 3 years > :). > Thanks David that is helpful. Regards; Hoyt
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