[wellylug] Mandrake 10 beta questions
Damon Lynch
damon at photo.geek.nz
Fri Feb 13 17:00:44 NZDT 2004
Hi,
On Sat, 2004-02-14 at 00:36, Jonathan Harker wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Mandrake 10 beta rocks!
Glad to hear.
>
> So I've downloaded a bunch of large rpms from a cooker mirror (eg. Vegastrike,
> kernel 2.6 source, Firefox, Mono), and the hdlists for cooker and contrib. How
> can I set up urpmi so that I don't have to download the 20 MB hdlists over a
> 56k modem, and just use the ones I've downloaded?
instead of using hdlist.cz, use synthesis.hdlist.cz instead. You miss
out on the package descriptions.
>
> Also, does anyone know how to stop urpmi from deleting the rpms it downloads
> (into /var/cache/urpmi) after it has installed them?! I have a script that
> copies them every 3 seconds in the meantime... rather annoying.
No need to do that.
>From man urpmi:
--noclean
Do not remove any packages from the cache in
directory /var/cache/urpmi/rpms.
>
> Then I should be able to dump the rpms in /var/cache/urpmi and it will install
> them, and download any dependencies I might have missed from the mirror.
>
> PS. Are there any NZ cooker mirrors?
If you find out, please let me know.
Damon
>
> Cheers,
> Jonathan
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