[Mageia-discuss] Easyurpmi forMageia ?

Sun May 22 09:15:24 CEST 2011

On 22/05/11 04:51, Wolfgang Bornath wrote:
+> I haven't used EasyUrpmi, but I used the other (similar) web tool
+> SmartUrpmi regularly.
+>
+> My reason was not to add PLF or any other repo (MUD or other). My main
+> reason was my dislike of the %MIRRORLIST system of Mandriva, you could
+> get connected to a very slow mirror or even to one which was not
+> uptodate without urpmi being able to switch to another mirror during
+> one session (a known bug). So I used SmartUrpmi to select a mirror
+> which I knew to be fast, reliable and uptodate instead of playing
+> lottery with %MIRRORLIST.
+>
+> Today with Mageia this risk is not high because there are not so many
+> mirrors around my residence. But I still would like to select a
+> dedicated mirror (my own mirror) from such a list as provided by the
+> web tool.
+>
+
+You can do that in the Media Manager, File - Add a specific media mirror 
+(the list of mirrors is displayed), or if your mirror is a private 
+mirror, File - Add a custom medium (select "create media for an entire 
+distribution").
+
+Jim
+