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diff --git a/man/C/urpmi.addmedia.8 b/man/C/urpmi.addmedia.8 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..57e6de26 --- /dev/null +++ b/man/C/urpmi.addmedia.8 @@ -0,0 +1,114 @@ +.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> |