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<H1>[Mageia-discuss] Easyurpmi forMageia ?</H1>
<B>Ahmad Samir</B>
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<I>Sun May 22 18:07:46 CEST 2011</I>
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<PRE>On 22 May 2011 10:01, Wolfgang Bornath <<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-discuss">molch.b at googlemail.com</A>> wrote:
><i> 2011/5/22 James Kerr <<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-discuss">jim at jkerr82508.free-online.co.uk</A>>:
</I>>><i> On 22/05/11 04:51, Wolfgang Bornath wrote:
</I>>>><i>
</I>>>><i> I haven't used EasyUrpmi, but I used the other (similar) web tool
</I>>>><i> SmartUrpmi regularly.
</I>>>><i>
</I>>>><i> My reason was not to add PLF or any other repo (MUD or other). My main
</I>>>><i> reason was my dislike of the %MIRRORLIST system of Mandriva, you could
</I>>>><i> get connected to a very slow mirror or even to one which was not
</I>>>><i> uptodate without urpmi being able to switch to another mirror during
</I>>>><i> one session (a known bug). So I used SmartUrpmi to select a mirror
</I>>>><i> which I knew to be fast, reliable and uptodate instead of playing
</I>>>><i> lottery with %MIRRORLIST.
</I>>>><i>
</I>>>><i> Today with Mageia this risk is not high because there are not so many
</I>>>><i> mirrors around my residence. But I still would like to select a
</I>>>><i> dedicated mirror (my own mirror) from such a list as provided by the
</I>>>><i> web tool.
</I>>>><i>
</I>>><i>
</I>>><i> You can do that in the Media Manager, File - Add a specific media mirror
</I>>><i> (the list of mirrors is displayed), or if your mirror is a private mirror,
</I>>><i> File - Add a custom medium (select "create media for an entire
</I>>><i> distribution").
</I>><i>
</I>><i> Yes, I know that but it's not the point here. I sure know how to add a
</I>><i> mirror to my /etc/urpmi/urpmi.cfg using vi, I sure know how to add a
</I>><i> mirror using 'urpmi.addmedia', and I sure know how to add a mirror
</I>><i> using "Add" in the media manager in MCC. But still I normally use this
</I>><i> web tool because 1) I don't have to care for typos and 2) it's soooo
</I>><i> convenient.
</I>
Open "configure media sources for install and update" -> File -> Add a
specific media mirror:
- it's already there on your box if you have rpmdrake installed
- there're no typos, you don't type anything here, it fetches the list
of mirrors and you can select the one you want
- what's not convenient about that :)
This method is the GUI equivalent of doing 'urpmi.addmedia --distrib
<mirror URL>'.
><i>
</I>><i> The benefit of this tool (I'm referring to
</I>><i> <A HREF="http://www.mandrivauser.de/smarturpmi/">http://www.mandrivauser.de/smarturpmi/</A> here) is
</I>><i>  - I see the current state of the mirrors in the list (including last
</I>><i> sync run, checked several times a day), so I can avoid mirrors which
</I>><i> can not be reached or are not uptodate;
</I>><i>  - instead of having to look up the address and the location of the
</I>><i> synthesis list and then copy it into a field in the media manager
</I>><i> (which is a sure cause for typos) I just have to mark all
</I>><i> media/mirrors I want to add, then click on a button and a script is
</I>><i> transferred to my machine, no place for errors.
</I>><i>  - starting the script I am asked for root passwort and after that I
</I>><i> can let the script do everything else, including a complete update -
</I>><i> if I want to.
</I>><i>
</I>><i> --
</I>><i> wobo
</I>><i>
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Ahmad Samir
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