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

[andre999]

Juergen Harms a écrit :
> > Definitely sounds weird, normally urpmi always preferred
> > local repositories. So best file a bug report about that.
>
> I found the reason: I always keep (kept) the cdrom medium last in my 
> list of media (i.e. sequence in /etc/urpmi/urpmi.cfg, as determined by 
> the sequence observed when media are created).
>
> In the past, urpmi nevertheless preferred the cdrom medium, but that 
> has apparently changed quite recently. I have now moved the cdrom 
> medium to be the first my in urpmi.cfg, and everything is fine again.
>
> Is this a bug? probably not - I dont think that the way urpmi 
> determines media priority is specified. But I think it is good to be 
> aware of this fact, in case somebody else hits this kind of problem.
>
I don't think so.  MCC adds local repositories before remote ones.
But the user is free to change the order.
Which apparently now changes the priority.  (What I had always assumed.)
Maybe a short note in the display saying that the order determines the 
priority ?

-- 
André