[Mageia-discuss] mageia 1 install

Sat Nov 19 10:15:48 CET 2011

Op zaterdag 19 november 2011 07:19:49 schreef bascule:
+> i've just upgraded from mdv2010.2 to mageia 1, a few comments:
+> my kde styule and colour settings weren't kept but this could have been a
+> kde upgrade issue
+> despite choosing a directory on my capacious home disk to download the rpms
+> to before install (i used the mgaonline gui) the install just hung, i used
+> the urpmi method and noticed that even though i specified --download-all
+> /home/somedirectory i still received the message that my / partition
+> didn't have enough space, after messing about removing suggested packages
+> etc. i found that even though i still got the message the rpms were
+> downloaded to the specified directory anyway :)
+> 
+> otherwise fairly painless, still not happy with some kde features compared
+> to 3.5 but that's hardly mageia's fault (no knewsticker, web shortcuts to
+> static pages don't work properly)
+> 
+> my one question is:
+> how do i add the core 32 bit repository manually? i have the i586 and
+> x86_64 repositories mirrored locally on an nfs server but i've read some
+> comments on the web that the usual method of adding sources that i used in
+> mandriva doesn't automatically add the 32 bit sources, is this right? in
+> the past i would specify the root of the x86_64 repository but the gui
+> would still find the adjacent i586 directory and add the 32 bit sources,
+> is this still how it should work?
+> 
+> bascule
+
+when i add sources ( like with urpmi.addmedia --distrib 
+'http://local.mirror/mageia/distrib/1/x86_64' ), it adds also Core32 
+repositories.
+
+PS: you may be interested in urpmi-proxy ( it works like a local mirror, 
+except it only fetches what you need, but it also checks if there's a newer 
+version. so, it kind of syncs when you're using it.)
+