[CLUE-Tech] MandrakeUpdate?

Jeffery Cann fabian at jefferycann.com
Sat Nov 30 23:35:40 MST 2002


On Saturday 30 November 2002 10:09 pm, Dave Price wrote:
> I would like to know where to get a list of 'general ftp or http
> mirrors' similar to apt's sources.list, mostly so that I can get new
> packages with 'urpmi' w/out having to load cdrom's all the time -

Not sure on this one.

> I would even be willing to load my (3) cdroms onto a server of my own if
> I knew how to lay them out to work with urpmi!

You can set up additional sources using the Software Manager.  For example, 
you can point to a directory on your hard drive.  I used to do this for 
updates to KDE, until I discovered urpmi.

Jeff

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