.TH urpmi.addmedia 8 "12 Feb 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 One of the following modes must be choosen: .PP http: .br .IP "\fB urpmi.addmedia [\fIoptions\fP] <\fIname\fP> http://<\fIhost\fP>/<\fIpath\fP> [with <\fIrelative path of synthesis|hdlist\fP>]\fP" Where <\fIname\fP> is your reference for the media (e.g. MandrakeUpdate). <\fIname\fP> is optional if \fB--distrib\fP is given in \fIoptions\fP. .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 \fBcurl\fP is used by default to download files, \fBwget\fP may be used if \fBcurl\fP is not installed or \fB--curl\fP is given in \fIoptions\fP. .PP ftp: .IP "\fB urpmi.addmedia [\fIoptions\fP] <\fIname\fP> ftp://<\fIlogin\fP>:<\fIuser\fP>@ <\fIhost\fP>/<\fIpath\fP> [with <\fIrelative path of synthesis|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 if \fBwget\fP is used to download files with a firewall 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 [\fIoptions\fP] <\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 [\fIoptions\fP] <\fIname\fP> removable://<\fIpath\fP>\fP [with <\fIrelative path of hdlist\fP>]\fP" <\fIpath\fP> is the location of the rpm directory on your machine when the removable device is mounted. .PP .SH OPTIONS .IP "\fB\--wget\fP" use wget only for downloading distant files. By default curl is used if available or wget instead. .IP "\fB\--curl\fP" use curl only for downloading distant files. By default curl is used if available or wget instead. .IP "\fB\--update\fP" add a medium which will be taken into account when updating only update media by \fBurpmi\fP. .IP "\fB\--distrib\fP" add all media from an installation medium. <\fIname\fP> if used is used with medium name found to create newer medium name in urpmi database. The \fBwith [...]\fP is not used as hdlist found on installation medium are used automatically. .SH FILES /usr/sbin/urpmi.addmedia .br The \fBurpmi.addmedia\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 /etc/urpmi/inst.list .br Contains package names that should be installed instead of updated. .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 .br Francois Pons, Mandrakesoft