[Mageia-dev] Missing packages in Mageia 1. How to backport?

Ahmad Samir ahmadsamir3891 at gmail.com
Fri Jun 10 18:14:09 CEST 2011


On 10 June 2011 16:46, James Kerr <jim at jkerr82508.free-online.co.uk> wrote:
> On 10/06/11 15:27, Oliver Burger wrote:
>>
>> James Kerr<jim at jkerr82508.free-online.co.uk>  schrieb am 10.06.2011
>>>
>>> Even though backports are disabled rpmdrake can display a list of
>>> available backports. (The sources are automatically updated by
>>> mgaonline.)
>>
>> I make you parden, but: no!
>>
>> When a repo is disabled it doesn't get updated automatically and its
>> packages are not to be found in rpmdrake.
>> Did you confuse "disabling repos" and "marking a repo for updates"
>> (sorry, me doesn't know the exact English strings).
>>
>>
>> So you have to enable the backports repos and even though you don't
>> "mark them as update repos", urpmi will ignore that (rpmdrake won't
>> but urpmi will) and will update everything from those repos...
>>
>
> I meant exactly what I wrote. Select Backports from the first filter in
> rpmdrake and packages from disabled backports sources will be displayed.
>
> Check /var/log/auth.log to see what mgaonline is doing.
>
> Jim
>
>

Jim is right; rpmdrake treats "backports" in a special way, and they
do get updated even when they're disabled. urpmi won't install
packages from them by default (unless you explicitly enable them or
use e.g. 'urpmi --searchmedia Core\ Backports'); rpmdrake can show
packages from "disabled" backports repos when you select the
"Backports" filter, assuming they were correctly updated by mgaonline
which is what mgaonline does by default.

-- 
Ahmad Samir


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