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

[James Kerr]

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