Re: Automatic media and mirror configuration

Frederik Himpe wrote:
> On wo, 2008-04-02 at 16:05 +0300, Anssi Hannula wrote:
>> Hi all!
>>
>> As of 2008.1/cooker, one can configure the PLF medias fully
>> automatically with this command:
>>
>> urpmi.addmedia --distrib --mirrorlist \
>> 	'http://plf.zarb.org/mirrors/$RELEASE.$ARCH.list'
>>
>> Urpmi will automatically select the closest mirror according to your
>> timezone. Backports are also added but ignored by default, you can use
>> drakrpm-edit-media to enable them.
>>
>> In case you were unaware, the command for the official Mandriva sources
>> is here:
>> urpmi.addmedia --distrib --mirrorlist '$MIRRORLIST'
> 
> Unfortunately this and the xml-info things seems to have broken some
> things...:
> 
> - mirror structure seems to have changed, so that I'm forced to remove
> and re-add PLF repositories on all of my machines:
> 
> [urpmi.update -a]
> 
> ftp://ftp.easynet.fr/plf/mandriva/cooker/free/binary/i586/synthesis.hdlist.cz
>                                                                                                                                                                                   
> ...retrieving failed: curl: (19) Given file does not exist
> ...retrieving failed: curl failed: exited with 19
> problem reading synthesis file of medium "plffree_release"
> 
> ftp://ftp.easynet.fr/plf/mandriva/cooker/non-free/binary/i586/synthesis.hdlist.cz
>                                                                                                                                                                                   
> ...retrieving failed: curl: (19) Given file does not exist
> ...retrieving failed: curl failed: exited with 19
> problem reading synthesis file of medium "plfnonfree_release"

After moving to the new synthesis generation system, Cooker synthesis
files are now in media_info/ subdir only. Do you think I should create
legacy compatibility hardlinks into ./ directory?

> - On one machine where I successfully reconfigured PLF with the above
> command, it seems after a complete urpmi --auto-select, urpmi is now
> broken:
> [root@anastacia frederik]# urpmi foo
> mirror list not found
> Could not find a mirror from mirrorlist
> http://plf.zarb.org/mirrors/2008.1.x86_64.list
> 
> Please create a 2008.1 file because mandriva-release is at 2008.1 now,
> even it it's not officially out yet.

You are late, I already did that a few hours ago :)

-- 
Anssi Hannula