[Mageia-dev] "adding 16777 new rpms not available in existing hdlist" ??

Mon Oct 10 01:55:29 CEST 2011

On 10/09/2011 07:17 PM, Balcaen John wrote:
+> Le dimanche 9 octobre 2011 19:10:49 Frank Griffin a écrit :
+>> I have two virtually identical cauldron systems which update from the
+>> same local cauldron tree.  One consistently gets messages during "urpmi
+>> --auto-update" like "adding 16777 new rpms not available in existing
+>> hdlist" which holds up the urpmi processing for literally minutes, and
+>> one does not.
+>>
+>> Does anyone know what this message indicates, what processing is
+>> occurring during the long delay, and any reason why it should occur on
+>> one system but not the other ?
+> You're probably using a local media without a hdlist inside.
+I don't see how.  Both systems install using HTTP from the same distro 
+tree and use the same script to delete and recreate media from that tree 
+after install:
+
+********************************************************
+[ftg at ftgme2 bin]$ cat customizeUrpmi.sh
+#!/bin/sh
+
+
+#
+#  Create urpmi sources
+#
+
+echo "Deleting existing urpmi sources"
+urpmi.removemedia -a
+echo "Creating urpmi sources"
+urpmi.addmedia --no-md5sum --probe-hdlist --distrib 
+file:///mnt/cauldron/$HOSTTYPE
+urpmi.update --no-ignore "Core Release Debug" "Core 32bit Release Debug" 
+"Nonfree Release Debug" "Nonfree Release" "Tainted Release"
+urpmi.update -a
+********************************************************
+
+
+The urpmi.cfg files are virtually identical:
+
+***************************************
+[root at ftglap urpmi]# cmp -b /etc/urpmi/urpmi.cfg 
+/mnt/ftgme2/etc/urpmi/urpmi.cfg
+/etc/urpmi/urpmi.cfg /mnt/ftgme2/etc/urpmi/urpmi.cfg differ: byte 2907, 
+line 135 is  40   175 }
+***************************************
+