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Old 01-27-2012, 01:50 AM   #1
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Can Mageia Repos be edited manually Etcetera.

I have a few Mandriva/Mageia questions I can't find any info on along with Mandrake.

1- I see links in search engines about Mandrake and there are also links to download it. I thought Mandrake was discontinued. What is the story on this? It is not maintained is it?

2- I would like to manually edit the Repos on Mageia but all I can find is info on how use commands instead of just editing a file. Can this be done? Can I add mirrors to a human readable file.

3-How similar is Mageia to Mandriva? Is it okay to post Mageia questions here?



I just installed Mageia 1 and It seams decent so far. Totem works really well and Xfce is stable on it unlike Fedora. I wanted a distro that Xfce worked well on and it is filling the bill. Mageia has been a success so far on my system.
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Old 01-27-2012, 03:36 AM   #2
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1- I see links in search engines about Mandrake and there are also links to download it. I thought Mandrake was discontinued. What is the story on this? It is not maintained is it?
Mandrake was renamed Mandriva several years ago. Some mirrors may use Mandrake as the name of the top level directory for the Mandriva repo's

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2- I would like to manually edit the Repos on Mageia but all I can find is info on how use commands instead of just editing a file. Can this be done? Can I add mirrors to a human readable file.
Same as in Mandriva, /etc/urpmi/urpmi.cfg

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3-How similar is Mageia to Mandriva? Is it okay to post Mageia questions here?
Mageia 1 is based on Mandriva 2010.2, with package version updates. This seems to be the best place to ask Mageia specific questions.

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Old 02-05-2012, 06:53 AM   #4
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Hi, you can add repos using urpmi command line interface (in a shell, like konsole or term,,).

heres a list of working repos, from my system
Code:
#! /bin/bash
#addmedia-Mageia1 urpm
# urpmi.addmedia list

# core
#urpmi.addmedia --update 

# with media_info/synthesis.hdlist.cz
# http://distrib-coffee.ipsl.jussieu.fr/pub/linux/Mageia/distrib/1/x86_64/media/core/

#Mageia-coffee-1-nonfree-updates 

urpmi.addmedia --update Mageia-coffee-1-core-updates http://distrib-coffee.ipsl.jussieu.fr/pub/linux/Mageia/distrib/1/x86_64/media/core/updates with media_info/synthesis.hdlist.cz
urpmi.addmedia Mageia-coffee-1-core-release http://distrib-coffee.ipsl.jussieu.fr/pub/linux/Mageia/distrib/1/x86_64/media/core/release with media_info/synthesis.hdlist.cz
#empty-media http://distrib-coffee.ipsl.jussieu.fr/pub/linux/Mageia/distrib/1/x86_64/media/core/backports/

# tainted

urpmi.addmedia Mageia-coffee-1-tainted-release http://distrib-coffee.ipsl.jussieu.fr/pub/linux/Mageia/distrib/1/x86_64/media/tainted/release with media_info/synthesis.hdlist.cz
urpmi.addmedia --update Mageia-coffee-1-tainted-updates http://distrib-coffee.ipsl.jussieu.fr/pub/linux/Mageia/distrib/1/x86_64/media/tainted/updates with media_info/synthesis.hdlist.cz
#empty-media http://distrib-coffee.ipsl.jussieu.fr/pub/linux/Mageia/distrib/1/x86_64/media/tainted/backports/

# non-free

urpmi.addmedia Mageia-coffee-1-nonfree-release http://distrib-coffee.ipsl.jussieu.fr/pub/linux/Mageia/distrib/1/x86_64/media/nonfree/release with media_info/synthesis.hdlist.cz
urpmi.addmedia --update Mageia-coffee-1-nonfree-updates http://distrib-coffee.ipsl.jussieu.fr/pub/linux/Mageia/distrib/1/x86_64/media/nonfree/updates with media_info/synthesis.hdlist.cz
#empty-media http://distrib-coffee.ipsl.jussieu.fr/pub/linux/Mageia/distrib/1/x86_64/media/nonfree/backports/

# i586
urpmi.addmedia --update Mageia-coffee-1-i586-updates http://distrib-coffee.ipsl.jussieu.fr/pub/linux/Mageia/distrib/1/i586/media/core/updates with media_info/synthesis.hdlist.cz
urpmi.addmedia Mageia-coffee-1-i586-release http://distrib-coffee.ipsl.jussieu.fr/pub/linux/Mageia/distrib/1/i586/media/core/release with media_info/synthesis.hdlist.cz


# cauldron

#urpmi.addmedia cauldron-core http://mirror.coffee.edu.au/pub/mageia/distrib/cauldron/x86_64/media/core/release with media_info/synthesis.hdlist.cz
#urpmi.addmedia cauldron-nonfree http://mirror.coffee.edu.au/pub/mageia/distrib/cauldron/x86_64/media/nonfree/release with media_info/synthesis.hdlist.cz
#urpmi.addmedia cauldron-tainted http://mirror.coffee.edu.au/pub/mageia/distrib/cauldron/x86_64/media/tainted/release with media_info/synthesis.hdlist.cz


#urpmi.addmedia cauldron-core http://distrib-coffee.ipsl.jussieu.fr/pub/linux/Mageia/distrib/cauldron/x86_64/media/core/release with media_info/synthesis.hdlist.cz
#urpmi.addmedia cauldron-tainted http://distrib-coffee.ipsl.jussieu.fr/pub/linux/Mageia/distrib/cauldron/x86_64/media/core/release with media_info/synthesis.hdlist.cz
#http://distrib-coffee.ipsl.jussieu.fr/pub/linux/Mageia/distrib/cauldron/x86_64/media/

# Mandriva cooker

#urpmi.addmedia Cooker-main http://mirror.internode.on.net/pub/mandriva/devel/2012/x86_64/media/main/release with media_info/synthesis.hdlist.cz
#urpmi.addmedia Cooker-contrib http://mirror.internode.on.net/pub/mandriva/devel/2012/x86_64/media/contrib/release with media_info/synthesis.hdlist.cz
#urpmi.addmedia Cooker-nonfree http://mirror.internode.on.net/pub/mandriva/devel/2012/x86_64/media/non-free/release with media_info/synthesis.hdlist.cz

urpmi.addmedia --update plf-free ftp://distrib-coffee.ipsl.jussieu.fr/pub/linux/plf/mandriva/free/10.2/x86_64 with hdlist.cz
urpmi.addmedia --update plf-nonfree http://distrib-coffee.ipsl.jussieu.fr/pub/linux/plf/mandriva/non-free/10.2/x86_64 with hdlist.cz
Mandrake 9.1 is still hosted, here's a link.
ftp://ftp.twaren.net/Linux/Mandrake/...Mandrake/RPMS/

iso,
ftp://ftp.twaren.net/Linux/Mandrake/.../iso/9.2/i586/

You should be able to get the mirror list...from mageia website...

also try http://easyurpmi.zarb.org/ for a guided selection and list.

cheers, Glenn
Last edited by GlennsPref; 02-05-2012 at 07:02 AM. Reason: ## devel repos, cooker and caldron.
 
Old 02-05-2012, 09:48 AM   #5
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You should be able to get the mirror list...from mageia website...

also try http://easyurpmi.zarb.org/ for a guided selection and list.
I think that easyurpmi is only for Mandriva - not Mageia.

Mageia mirror list is at:

http://mirrors.mageia.org/

Jim
 
Old 02-05-2012, 08:09 PM   #6
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Oops! My bad.

Thanks Jim
 
  


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