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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:
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.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).
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<\fIhost\fP>/<\fIpath\fP> is the location of the rpm directory on the net.
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<\fIrelative path of hdlist\fP> is the pathname where to find the hdlist of
the rpms. The location is given relative to <\fIpath\fP>.
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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).
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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. 
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eg: urpmi.addmedia ftp ftp://a:a@leia//export/Mandrake/RPMS with ../base/hdlist
.fi
.PP
Local drive or NFS:
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.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).
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<\fIpath\fP> is the location of the rpm directory on your machine.
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Removable device:
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.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, ...).
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<\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
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The \fBurpmi\fP executable (perl script)
.PP
/var/lib/urpmi/list.*
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Contains the list of all packages known by urpmi and their location. There
is one filelist per media(*).
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/var/lib/urpmi/hdlist.*
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Contain information about all known packages, it's a summary of rpm headers.
There is one filelist per media(*).
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/var/lib/urpmi/synthesis.hdlist.*
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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.
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/etc/urpmi/urpmi.cfg
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Contains media description, previous format from older urpmi is accepted.
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/etc/urpmi/skip.list
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Contains package names that should be not automatically updated.
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/var/lib/urpmi/depslist.ordered
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A simple text file containing all dependencies of all known packages.
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/var/lib/urpmi/provides
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A simple text file containning all provides and the list of associated
packages that contains them.
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/var/lib/urpmi/compss
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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>
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Francois Pons, Mandrakesoft <fpons@mandrakesoft.com>