[Mageia-discuss] urpmi does fetches packages from a mirror, even if they exist on the install DVD

Fri Apr 20 00:41:04 CEST 2012

Juergen Harms a écrit :
+> > Definitely sounds weird, normally urpmi always preferred
+> > local repositories. So best file a bug report about that.
+>
+> I found the reason: I always keep (kept) the cdrom medium last in my 
+> list of media (i.e. sequence in /etc/urpmi/urpmi.cfg, as determined by 
+> the sequence observed when media are created).
+>
+> In the past, urpmi nevertheless preferred the cdrom medium, but that 
+> has apparently changed quite recently. I have now moved the cdrom 
+> medium to be the first my in urpmi.cfg, and everything is fine again.
+>
+> Is this a bug? probably not - I dont think that the way urpmi 
+> determines media priority is specified. But I think it is good to be 
+> aware of this fact, in case somebody else hits this kind of problem.
+>
+I don't think so.  MCC adds local repositories before remote ones.
+But the user is free to change the order.
+Which apparently now changes the priority.  (What I had always assumed.)
+Maybe a short note in the display saying that the order determines the 
+priority ?
+
+-- 
+André
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