On Mon, 22 Nov 2004 06:24, mike wrote: > If you use -c option for urpmi.removemedia it will clean the headers > cache directory. > > I borked mine up before and had to remove all sources and readd them. > > First I "urpmi.removemedia -a -c" then I had to manually remove > > /var/lib/urpmi/list.name_of_source > /var/lib/urpmi/hdlist.name_of_source.cz > /var/lib/urpmi/synthesis.hdlist.name_of_source.cz > /var/lib/urpmi/descriptions.name_of_source > /var/lib/urpmi/names.name_of_source > > for each source, then added my sources with urpmi.addmedia > > All seemed to work out well, not exactly sure why :~/ > > I would have thought that urpmi.removemedia would have removed the > entries for the sources in /var/lib/urpmi/ but it didn't and they > were giving me some problems. Perhaps I needed to update the data > base or something. Anyways a personal expierence, if it helps. > > Mike
Mate, great timing, just had another existing source go bad, and that worked perfectly, saved a hell of a lot of 'rm -rf *yada*' ;-) And shouldn't the gui handle this a bit more elegently then just dieing??? John.
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