[Mageia-dev] Changing default media names

Mon Nov 21 14:57:24 CET 2011

On Mon, 21 Nov 2011, nicolas vigier wrote:
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+> On Mon, 21 Nov 2011, Luc Menut wrote:
+> 
+> > Le 20/11/2011 19:43, nicolas vigier a écrit :
+> >> I suggest we replace them on Cauldron and later versions with names
+> >> like this :
+> >>
+> >>   cauldron/x86_64/core/release
+> >>   cauldron/x86_64/debug/core/release
+> >>   cauldron/x86_64/core/updates
+> >>   cauldron/x86_64/debug/core/updates
+> >>   cauldron/x86_64/core/backports
+> >>   cauldron/x86_64/nonfree/release
+> >>   cauldron/i586/core/release
+> >>   cauldron/i586/core/updates
+> >>   ...
+> >
+> > I assume that they are only templates and not the real unique identifiers. 
+> > If not, how do you plan to manage multiple servers for a same media?
+> 
+> This is the default names that will be used when using urpmi.addmedia
+> --distrib. If the name is already used, urpmi.addmedia currently prepend
+> a number to the name.
+> 
+> It is also possible to specify a name when using urpmi.addmedia
+> --distrib. In that case, a string like this is prepended : " (nameN)" 
+> with N a number incremented for each media. Maybe this could be changed
+> to prefix with "name-" instead.
+
+s/prepend/append/
+
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