eric jackson wrote:
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From: "Johan Sch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, June 16, 2004 3:22 PM
Subject: Re: [newbie] URPMI wiped
On Wed, 16 Jun 2004 10:46:42 -0400
"eric jackson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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From: "Amy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Tuesday, June 15, 2004 6:00 PM
Subject: Re: [newbie] URPMI wiped
Johan Sch wrote:
Hi list,
It happened too me twice today .. urpmi taken permanent vacation
after
update .. it seems that it just wipes dependencies .. even its own ..
after
some years of using and trusting it I was let down.
Well I have seen this some time ago.
Kindly point me to site were I can try to find the mail please.
Maybe if it is short kindly explain please.
I did a repair by popping cd 1 and upgrade same system .. some side
effects .. nvidia must be re-istalled .. urpmi in MCC additional sites
wiped .. maybe something else I stiil have not discovered.
Thanks
I've had that happen to me. Basically what you have to do is go find
the
rpm packages to install yourself by spelunking through ftp and stuff,
and install everything package by package. Annoying, but I managed to
do
it with the help of my friend, and I'm fairly new to all this stuff.
I had the same thing happen to me this morning. I don't have urpmi or
rpmdrake any more. I found both packages but when I click on the icon it
asked what program it should use to open the rpm with and I don't know
what
to answer. The whole menu entry for Packaging has disappeared. How do I
deal
with that?
Eric Jackson
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Well, Eric I know how you feel.
There is not a lot of advice available on this . to date ..
The only answers to this question so far on this list are....
1-The way Amy did with the help of a friend,,
Amy .. kindly if possible the required rpms to restore urpmi please.
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2- What I did . re-install . after saving home direcrory in safe place .
if you have done updates with the --noclean option all rpms should be here
../var/cache/urpmi/rpms/ ..copy them to save place.
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here is rsync command I use ..
su - -c "rsync -va --ignore-existing /var/cache/urpmi/rpms/ \
/mnt/hde14-backup/mdk10/updates10/RPMS/"
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here is the rsync for the home directory..
su - -c "rsync -av --delete /home/ \
/mnt/hde14-backup/mdk10-home/"
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You have to create the destination dirs first .. adjust the destination to
your system.
Maybe you know even more than I do about this.
Goodluck
Johan Sch
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From what I was told, urpmi is a fairly simple program, so it just
removes what needs to be removed, then installs the new stuff. But
when
one of the things it removes is one of it's dependencies, it'll remove
itself too because it wasn't told ~not~ to.
Good luck on getting that rolling. I haven't had a problem with it
again
since I had to reinstall it the hard way.
--
Johan Sch
Registered Linux User #33034
May this be a good day for learning
I did get things straightened out. I had a urpmi rpm on a CD. I used rpm to
install it but everything else I tried to install failed because of
dependencies.
I used urpmi remove.media -a (I think) to remove my old listings. Next I
added new sources for urpmi to use. After I finished that I used urpmi to
add rpmdrake, gurpmi, drakxtools, drakxtools-newt and drakconf to my system.
Everything seems to be fine.
Eric Jackson
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When this happened to me I ran the update from the 10CE cd. This
installed the missing rpms and left all the newer rpms alone. After the
"update", I just had to run urpmi --auto-select to bring everthing up to
date.
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