On Tuesday 15 March 2005 11:51 am, Tom wrote:
> Julie Sloan wrote:
> > On Tuesday 15 March 2005 10:37 am, Tom wrote:
> >>Julie Sloan wrote:
> >>>Sorry for the very long (what follows), but I've been at this point
> >>>three times now, and each time I go to easyurpmi.zarb.org and start
> >>>over with urpmi.removemedia, (then get the new sources) and then:
> >>>
> >>>rpm --rebuilddb && updatedb && update-menus -v -n && ldconfig &&
> >>>urpmi.update -a --no-md5sum && urpmi --auto-select --noclean
> >>
> > hi Tom;
> > okay, I don't need to update the menus and all that after each large
> > update? I thought I read here that I should.
>
> Depends, as I said sometimes after large updates it's needed,
> along with log out/in .... But you were tryin to do all those
> system 'refreshers' _before_ updating. You got it sort'a kind'a
> backasswards sweetheart ;) At least what you posted
Uh huh. I neglected to post the several hours of downloads that preceded
that. :)
the order in which I have been doing stuff is:
urpmi.removemedia (if necessary)
urpmi.addmedia
rpm --rebuilddb etc
urpmi.update -a
urpmi --auto-select
rpm --rebuild, etc
I figured any time I added or removed any number of programs (whether one or
fifty) or changed media managers it wouldn't hurt to run the system
refreshers.
> > I am doing --noclean so that I do not have to d/l the rpms again should
> > I have to reinstall (off discs) - I am on dialup and it takes several
> > days. Also I am keeping the rpms because I am fixin to install 10.0 on
> > my laptop and sure don't want to have to d/l all that once again.
>
> OK, that's a valid reason, particulary if you move them to a
> 'safe' backup location. If you're forced to do a re-install with
> the packages left in /var/cache/urpmi/rpms/ or anywhere on your '/'
> partition, You'll lose them. I believe you might also find that if
> an when that re-install should occur, the packages could well have
> already been obsoleted by newer ones anyhow.
I have a separate /storage/ partition (thanks Lanman!); and what I think I'd
like the rpms to do is ...at the time they would normally be "cleaned" if I
didn't have the "--noclean" switch on, I would like them to move to a
directory on that partition instead.
> >> As far as --no-md5sum, I don't think you wanna do that either.
> >>It disables protection from d/l'g corrupted packages from bad
> >>mirrors. I believe what you want is to add these lines to the
> >>beginning of /etc/urpmi/urpmi.cfg (brackets included)
> >>
> >>{
> >> downloader: wget
> >> verify-rpm: 0
> >>}
<smile> later on, when I have time to play with vi again I will insert that
into the .cfg
Thanks for all the other tips, too. It was interesting reading and I will
implement them.
--
Julie
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