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

[Florian Hubold]

Am 19.04.2012 09:31, schrieb Juergen Harms:
> I just installed Beta 3 - very smooth install, boot time has substantially
> shortened, great.
>
> But, after the install I do urpmi <list of additional packages>, and there is
> a big snare: all packages are fetched from the remote mirror, even if they
> exist on the install DVD. As a consequence, loading packages after install
> becomes very tedious and long (for instance if I post-load packages like
> texlive-texmf of libreoffice).
>
> I verifified in /etc/urpmi/urpmi.cfg: the "cdrom:.." medium is well defined
> (and does not have an "ignore" statement).
>
> To create a demo that can be easily reproduced, I did urpme xmag : the
> package is fetched from the mirror, although a package with the same version
> exists on the install DVD.
>
> Did I commit some stupid error? - does this problem arrive elsewhere?
>
> Juergen
>
Definitely sounds weird, normally urpmi always preferred
local repositories. So best file a bug report about that.