[Mageia-dev] [RFC] urpmq --not-available (was renaming -debug packages as -debuginfo)

Tue Dec 4 09:15:37 CET 2012

Pascal Terjan a écrit :
+> On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 2:09 PM, Pascal Terjan <pterjan at gmail.com> wrote:
+>> On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 1:13 PM, andre999 <andre999mga at laposte.net> wrote:
+>>> Colin Guthrie a écrit :
+>>>
+>>>> ...
+>>>>
+>>>> general advice of running "urpmq --not-available" would be a good enough
+>>>> fallback IMO.
+>>>>
+>>>
+>>> By chance is that compared to cauldron ?
+>>
+>> To the configured media
+>>
+>>> Or is some other parameter required ?
+>>
+>> None should be needed
+>>
+>>> On my system, it lists 981 packages (more than 2/3 of those installed), on
+>>> an up to date mga2.
+>>> The vast majority are tagged mga2
+>>> (A few are tagged mga1, required by some mga2 package, as well as various
+>>> upstream packages.)
+>>> Scanning my mirror 2/core/updates, a lot are in my list.
+>>> (The list gives the full package file names, except the .rpm suffix.)
+>>
+>> Do you have some example?
+>> Can you give your urpmi configuration?
+>
+> Testing on various machines, it seems wrong when there are several
+> versions of the package available (updates or core+tainted)
+>
+Ok, most of my problem was due to my inadvertantly removing the official 
+mirrors when I had a problem booting a few days ago.
+The only repo defined was the mga2 dvd.
+(I had tried simply reinstalling mga2, a trick which sometimes works.
+I ended up having to scan for & remove bad blocks, which did work.)
+Sorry for the noise.
+
+After activating official mga2 repos, adding + activating my usual local 
+repos of updates I've installed, I got a list of 133 packages.
+A few tests showed that the packages listed were only those *not* in 
+activated repos, whether local or not.
+Duplicate packages or updates in activated repos didn't produce any 
+false positives.
+(It is important to ensure that local repos are up to date.)
+In other words, the list was correct.
+
+So to ensure that the urpmq --non-available lists all non-supported 
+(including obsoleted) packages, in addition to setting up official 
+repos, local repos which might contain such packages should be deactivated.
+
+-- 
+André
+