[Mageia-dev] Missing packages in Mageia 1. How to backport?

Fri Jun 10 16:46:17 CEST 2011

On 10/06/11 15:27, Oliver Burger wrote:
+> James Kerr<jim at jkerr82508.free-online.co.uk>  schrieb am 10.06.2011
+>> Even though backports are disabled rpmdrake can display a list of
+>> available backports. (The sources are automatically updated by
+>> mgaonline.)
+> I make you parden, but: no!
+>
+> When a repo is disabled it doesn't get updated automatically and its
+> packages are not to be found in rpmdrake.
+> Did you confuse "disabling repos" and "marking a repo for updates"
+> (sorry, me doesn't know the exact English strings).
+>
+>
+> So you have to enable the backports repos and even though you don't
+> "mark them as update repos", urpmi will ignore that (rpmdrake won't
+> but urpmi will) and will update everything from those repos...
+>
+
+I meant exactly what I wrote. Select Backports from the first filter in 
+rpmdrake and packages from disabled backports sources will be displayed.
+
+Check /var/log/auth.log to see what mgaonline is doing.
+
+Jim
+
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