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+.TH urpmi.addmedia 8 "05 Jul 2001" "MandrakeSoft" "Mandrake Linux"
+.IX urpmi.addmedia
+.SH NAME
+urpmi.addmedia \- adds a new rpms media for use with urpmi
+.SH SYNOPSIS
+.B urpmi.addmedia [\fIoptions\fP] <\fIname\fP> <\fIurl\fP>
+.SH DESCRIPTION
+urpmi.addmedia tells urpmi that he can find new rpms at the specified
+location. Currently supported medias are: local drives, removable drives
+(such as cd's), http and ftp.
+.PP
+All users belonging to group urpmi are allowed to add a new media.
+.PP
+One of the following modes must be choosen:
+.PP
+http:
+.br
+.IP "\fB urpmi.addmedia <\fIname\fP> http://<\fIhost\fP>/<\fIpath\fP> with <\fIrelative path of hdlist\fP>\fP"
+Where <\fIname\fP> is your reference for the media (e.g. MandrakeUpdate).
+.br
+<\fIhost\fP>/<\fIpath\fP> is the location of the rpm directory on the net.
+.br
+<\fIrelative path of hdlist\fP> is the pathname where to find the hdlist of
+the rpms. The location is given relative to <\fIpath\fP>.
+.br
+Note that \fBwget\fP is used to download files, you may add specific options to
+\fBwget\fP by editing \fB/etc/wgetrc\fP file. Please refer to \fBwget\fP
+documentation for more information.
+.IP "\fB urpmi.addmedia <\fIname\fP> ftp://<\fIlogin\fP>:<\fIuser\fP>@<\fIhost\fP>/<\fIpath\fP> with <\fIrelative path of hdlist\fP>\fP"
+The same as for http, just add your login and user if required (Note that
+you needn't to specify anonymous as login for anonymous access ftp servers).
+.br
+Note that \fBwget\fP is used to download files, so if a firewall is used you may
+have to add \fBpassive_ftp=on\fP option to \fB/etc/wgetrc\fP.
+.nf
+eg: urpmi.addmedia ftp ftp://a:a@leia//export/Mandrake/RPMS with ../base/hdlist
+.fi
+.PP
+Local drive or NFS:
+.br
+.IP "\fB urpmi.addmedia <\fIname\fP> file://<\fIpath\fP>\fP with <\fIrelative path of hdlist\fP>\fP"
+Where <\fIname\fP> is your reference for the media (e.g. Myrpms).
+.br
+<\fIpath\fP> is the location of the rpm directory on your machine.
+.PP
+Removable device:
+.br
+.IP "\fB urpmi.addmedia removable_<\fIdevice\fP>://<\fIpath\fP>\fP with <\fIrelative path of hdlist\fP>\fP"
+<\fIdevice\fP> is the name of your media as specified in the /dev/ directory
+(e.g. cdrom, floppy, zip, ...).
+.br
+<\fIpath\fP> is the location of the rpm directory on your machine when media
+is mounted.
+.PP
+.SH OPTIONS
+.IP "\fB\--update\fP"
+add a medium which will be taken into account when updating only update media by
+\fBurpmi\fP.
+.SH FILES
+/usr/bin/urpmi
+.br
+The \fBurpmi\fP executable (perl script)
+.PP
+/var/lib/urpmi/list.*
+.br
+Contains the list of all packages known by urpmi and their location. There
+is one filelist per media(*).
+.PP
+/var/lib/urpmi/hdlist.*
+.br
+Contain information about all known packages, it's a summary of rpm headers.
+There is one filelist per media(*).
+.PP
+/var/lib/urpmi/synthesis.hdlist.*
+.br
+Contain synthesis information about all known packages built from hdlist files
+that can be used by minimal closure algorithm. If these files are not present
+use \fBurpmi.update -a\fP to generate them. These files are not mandatory.
+.PP
+/etc/urpmi/urpmi.cfg
+.br
+Contains media description, previous format from older urpmi is accepted.
+.PP
+/etc/urpmi/skip.list
+.br
+Contains package names that should be not automatically updated.
+.PP
+/var/lib/urpmi/depslist.ordered
+.br
+A simple text file containing all dependencies of all known packages.
+.PP
+/var/lib/urpmi/provides
+.br
+A simple text file containning all provides and the list of associated
+packages that contains them.
+.PP
+/var/lib/urpmi/compss
+.br
+A simple text file containning for each Group used the list of package in
+this group.
+.SH "SEE ALSO"
+urpmi(8),
+urpmi.update(8),
+urpmi.removemedia(8),
+autoirpm(8),
+autoirpm-icons(8),
+gurpmi(8),
+urpmf(8),
+urpmq(8),
+rpmdrake(8)
+.SH AUTHOR
+Pascal Rigaux, Mandrakesoft <pixel@mandrakesoft.com>
+.br
+Francois Pons, Mandrakesoft <fpons@mandrakesoft.com>