[PLUG] rpmdrake question..

Nathan Meyers nmeyers at javalinux.net
Mon Apr 1 19:56:33 UTC 2002


On Mon, Apr 01, 2002 at 09:28:47AM -0800, Brent Rieck wrote:
> Thanks for the hints Nathan,
> 
> On Mon, 2002-04-01 at 06:32, Nathan Meyers wrote:
> > (BTW, the same sources you set up with rpmdrake are also used for the
> > urpmi tool, which does auto-dependency stuff and generally makes it
> > about as easy to load packages as APT does for Debian.)
> 
> Unfortunatly the url/hdlist pair didn't work for me - but knowing that
> rpmdrake was a companion to urpmi I found that in /etc/urpmi/urpmi.cfg I
> could copy a (non-working) source with my trusty text editor that was
> present in that file and "fool" rpmdrake into taking the (8.2-ized) url
> you provided.  Everything was peachy until I wanted to install a few
> RPMs that (I guess) show up in hdlist.cz yet aren't present in the RPMS
> directory.  Other non-peachyness is that urls entered don't appear to
> survive rpmdrake restarts.  Are these things which you've seen in the
> 8.1 version?

Sorry, haven't run into this.

Nathan




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