Re: How to set up mirrors in Smart Package Manager?
- From: Aaron Konstam <akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2007 10:24:11 -0600
On Thu, 2007-01-25 at 22:25 -0500, oleksandr korneta wrote:
I don't understand you post. When I install smart I don't get a livna
on 01/23/2007 07:42 AM Marcelo Magno T. Sales wrote:
Hi, people
Tired of the well known yum/yumex incredible slowness, I'm experimenting with
Smart Package Manager. I must say I'm impressed with some of its
capabilities, like the fast parallel download of files, the possibility to
revert a package to an older version from within the GUI, to use a directory
with a bunch of RPMs as a repo and to easily set up removable repos, among
others useful features. Not having to download and rebuild the package
catalogs every time you run the program or install a package saves much time
too.
However, I did not understand very well how to configure mirrors for channels.
My doubts are the following:
1. Is there a way to use a mirrorlist URL, like yum?
2. What is the difference between adding a mirror channel (Edit -> Channels ->
New -> Provide channel information -> Mirror Information) and adding a mirror
(Edit -> Mirrors -> New)?
3. How to use the first of the above mentioned options?
3.1. Should I add a mirror channel for each mirror of a repo or just one
channel for all of them?
3.2. How should I use the "File URL" field? Is this a local path to a text
file with the mirrors' informations? How should this file be
formated?
3.3. If a mirror channel for each mirror should be added, their name
should all be the same? And in this case, what should I fill up in
"File URL"?
4. About "Edit -> Mirrors -> New", do I have to fill up the channel URL
in "Origin URL" and the mirror URL in "Mirror URL" for each mirror of the
same repo, one by one? Isn't there a better way to add mirrors?
I cant really answer any of your questions, but just want to mention
that I am using smart for almost 2 years with fedora (after apt4rpm yum
makes me sick) and I never bothered to set any additional mirrors for
the channels. I didnt manage to find any ready-to-use configuration and
I am too lazy to do it completely myself. But I found that smart works
just fine even without this. Of course there was couple times when the
default mirror was down, but It came back up later and I didnt have to
worry much about that.
sorry for
channel. When I try add one I get in trouble because smart is not smart
enough to interpret the variables in the yum repo's baseurls. With the
livna channel one gets in trouble because it can't handle multiple
baseurls in the same channel (as yumex doesn't). It is certainly not as
intuitive to use as yumex is. I can't understand why smart does not have
a function to convert all the yum repos to channels automatically.
To me it is a real. pain but YMMD
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