[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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