Implement a new option, --norebuild, to urpmi, urpmi.update and urpmi.addmedia.

It prevents rebuilding the hdlist from the headers of the RPMs for a local
media. It's also settable globally in the urpmi.cfg file. Comes with doc.

4 files changed, 15 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/man/C/urpmi.8 b/man/C/urpmi.8
index 3f2a1db8..7d7771a5 100644
--- a/man/C/urpmi.8
+++ b/man/C/urpmi.8
@@ -135,6 +135,9 @@ Activate or deactivate rpm signature checking. It's activated by default.
 .IP "\fB\--test\fP"
 Test (same as \fBrpm --test\fP) installation of packages but do not modify the
 system.
+.IP "\fB\--norebuild\fP"
+Don't try to rebuild the hdlist files from the RPMs if the original hdlist wasn't
+readable or was corrupted.
 .IP "\fB\--excludepath\fP \fIstring\fP"
 Do not install files whose name begins with the given \fIstring\fP (same as \fBrpm
 --excludepath\fP).
diff --git a/man/C/urpmi.addmedia.8 b/man/C/urpmi.addmedia.8
index 3278499f..f6a1deca 100644
--- a/man/C/urpmi.addmedia.8
+++ b/man/C/urpmi.addmedia.8
@@ -112,6 +112,9 @@ installed.
 Create a virtual medium, this only works for file:// and removable:// protocol
 and no files will be created in /var/lib/urpmi. The medium is always up-to-date
 and so it does not need to be updated by \fBurpmi.update\fP.
+.IP "\fB\--norebuild\fP"
+Don't try to rebuild the hdlist files from the RPMs if the original hdlist wasn't
+readable or was corrupted.
 .IP "\fB\-c\fP"
 Clean headers cache directory in /var/cache/urpmi/headers.
 .IP "\fB\-h\fP"
diff --git a/man/C/urpmi.cfg.5 b/man/C/urpmi.cfg.5
index a97d8303..aba640a9 100644
--- a/man/C/urpmi.cfg.5
+++ b/man/C/urpmi.cfg.5
@@ -53,6 +53,12 @@ activated.
 Same as \fB--excludedocs\fP for \fBurpmi\fP, default is disabled.
 
 .TP
+.B norebuild
+Same as \fB--norebuild\fP for \fBurpmi\fP, \fBurpmi.update\fP and
+\fBurpmi.addmedia\fP, disabled by default (meaning that \fBurpmi\fP
+will try to rebuild hdlists by default).
+
+.TP
 .B limit-rate
 Same as \fB--limit-rate\fP for all tools. This option allows to control download
 speed, there is no limitation by default. The number is given in kilo-bytes per
diff --git a/man/C/urpmi.update.8 b/man/C/urpmi.update.8
index 19797942..5ba617da 100644
--- a/man/C/urpmi.update.8
+++ b/man/C/urpmi.update.8
@@ -29,6 +29,9 @@ Use only update media.
 Disable MD5SUM file checking.
 .IP "\fB\--force-key\fP"
 Force update of GPG key.
+.IP "\fB\--norebuild\fP"
+Don't try to rebuild the hdlist files from the RPMs if the original hdlist wasn't
+readable or was corrupted.
 .IP "\fB\-a\fP"
 Select all media that are not using a removable device to update them.
 .IP "\fB\-c\fP"