dexter11 Posted October 5, 2006 Report Share Posted October 5, 2006 No, neither do I any more, they must have changed it. So only 2007 official community and only main and contrib? Can that really be right? Is this a problem with the repositories, or just with the urpmi websites? I've downloaded the 2007 "mini" version which means I'll be relying on urpmi to update it - should I wait a few weeks for the repositories to catch up?? Another thread here recommended to just use "official" - is that likely to break everything or is that the recommended path? Or should I just download the DVD and ignore urpmi for a while? edit: Mistyped "official" instead of "community" in all the confusion. And yes I'm still confused what "2007 community" means... I used the 2006 lines generated by easyurpmi. I just replaced 2006.0 with 2007.0 in the url and it works. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neddie Posted October 5, 2006 Report Share Posted October 5, 2006 I used the 2006 lines generated by easyurpmi. I just replaced 2006.0 with 2007.0 in the url and it works.2006 or 2006 community? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted October 5, 2006 Report Share Posted October 5, 2006 I just connected to a mirror, found the relative path and updated manually without easyurpmi. I noticed now, they also add "release" to the end as well, so it's a little different than the usual 2006 format. Eg, media/main/release instead of just media/main. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aRTee Posted October 5, 2006 Report Share Posted October 5, 2006 I noticed that after a clean install, you can just open the mcc, then media manager, then choose 'add' and you just have to pick a server. It added main-update, main and contrib - without me needing any kind of easyurpmi. We still need it for plffree and nonfree. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fahd Posted October 5, 2006 Report Share Posted October 5, 2006 Anyone any idea when the ISO's should be available for ftp or http download? I can't use bittorrent from work (and yes, I am wanting to download Mandriva for work purposes ;) ). Try this ftp server: ftp://ftp.u-strasbg.fr/pub/linux/distribu...cial/iso/2007.0 Fahd Budapest, Hungary. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dexter11 Posted October 5, 2006 Report Share Posted October 5, 2006 I used the 2006 lines generated by easyurpmi. I just replaced 2006.0 with 2007.0 in the url and it works.2006 or 2006 community? 2006. The community always points to the devel tree. And yes there is a release subdir under main but there's also a reconfig.urpmi file which I believe helps urpmi to find the release dir under main. I tried to use the GUI to add update_source during install and later with rpmdrake but I coudn't . I noticed that on the servers I tried, the hdlist.cz file was screwed so I used the synthesis.hdlist.cz file so it took as a source at least but didn't installed the updates. Rpmdrake showed no updates at all. So I thought I try smart. Wobo had a really positive impression about it in the club forum. And it worked. It even has an update utility ksmsrtray which is blinking if you have updates. And now all the updates are installed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neddie Posted October 5, 2006 Report Share Posted October 5, 2006 The community always points to the devel tree.So the 2006 community points to the 2006 devel tree? Are there devel trees for 2006, 2005, etc etc? I thought the only development tree was cooker? Sorry if I'm dragging this off-topic but I really don't get it. And it looks like I need to read up about smart too, if urpmi doesn't work any more :( Getting nervous about my looming upgrade... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jboy Posted October 5, 2006 Report Share Posted October 5, 2006 Another difference is that updates is now under main - media/main/updates Contrib doesn't have a corresponding media/contrib/updates so I don't know if that means that all updates will be in media/main/updates from now on or whether contrib will have a separate updates directory in the future. I haven't had any problems with urpmi, as long as I used the release subdirectory as Ian described above (i.e., media/main/release, media/contrib/release). I've used urpmi for several in-place upgrades from 2006 to 2007 official as well as updates once 2007 official was installed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mhn Posted October 5, 2006 Report Share Posted October 5, 2006 (edited) lftp ftp.sunet.se:/> ls pub/Linux/distributions/Mandriva/official/ drwxr-xr-x 5 1137 1100 144 May 24 2004 10.0 drwxr-xr-x 5 1137 1100 120 Dec 1 2004 10.1 drwxr-xr-x 5 1137 1100 120 Oct 14 2005 10.2 lrwxrwxrwx 1 1137 1100 4 Apr 14 2005 2005 -> 10.2 drwxr-xr-x 5 1137 1100 120 Oct 18 2005 2006.0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 1137 1100 16 Oct 2 23:03 2007.0 -> ../devel/2007.0/ drwxrwxr-x 4 1137 1100 96 Apr 2 2004 9.0 drwxr-sr-x 6 1137 1100 144 Oct 16 2003 9.1 drwxrwxr-x 5 1137 1100 120 Oct 13 2003 9.2 lrwxrwxrwx 1 1137 1100 6 Oct 15 2005 current -> 2006.0 drwxrwxr-x 17 1137 1100 552 Oct 3 08:14 iso drwxr-xr-x 11 1137 1100 312 Sep 6 17:52 updates so 2007.0 official also points to the community tree... Edited October 5, 2006 by Mhn Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dexter11 Posted October 6, 2006 Report Share Posted October 6, 2006 OK so they just opened the community tree then. neddie: The difference between community and official should be that the community tree is not frozen and this: ftp://gd.tuwien.ac.at/pub/linux/Mandriva/devel/2007.0/i586/media/ ftp://gd.tuwien.ac.at/pub/linux/Mandriva/official/2007.0/i586/media/ But since the 2007.0 directory is only a link to the 2007.0 directory in the devel tree, as Mhn noticed, currently there's no difference. Cooker is also under the devel dir: ftp://gd.tuwien.ac.at/pub/linux/Mandriva/devel/cooker Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RVDowning Posted October 6, 2006 Report Share Posted October 6, 2006 After getting thoroughly confused, I guess the question that arises is, "Will easyurpmi at some point be updated so that it can be used in the same fashion it was used with Mandriva 2006?" If so, what might be the expected timeframe? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyme Posted October 6, 2006 Report Share Posted October 6, 2006 by easyurpmi do you mean the mirror we have (vs. the one at zarb.org) or just it in general? i'm sure it will be at some time, zarb just may not have the right sources yet (it's only been a few days folks...all mirrors may not be propogated yet) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dexter11 Posted October 6, 2006 Report Share Posted October 6, 2006 After getting thoroughly confused, I guess the question that arises is, "Will easyurpmi at some point be updated so that it can be used in the same fashion it was used with Mandriva 2006?" If so, what might be the expected timeframe? As I wrote in my previous post just before yours, only the community tree is opened publicly. Hence the settings in easyurpmi and smart-urpmi. The official tree is only a link to the community tree. Once the official tree opens up (if it opens up) they will update easyurpmi and smart-urpmi I'm sure. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
reb2 Posted October 7, 2006 Report Share Posted October 7, 2006 ok so i downloaded the 4 cd iso's, burned the cd's, and did a "upgrade" over 2006, well it trashed the upgrade ! rpm drake did not work (crashed), xchat crashed most things crashed when trying to use them ! so i did a complete wipe and clean install, and this worked fine, everything now works !! as this is a spare machine i was not bothered, but maybe others would be, MANDRIVA, WHAT IS THE POINT OF AN "UPGRADE" OPTION IF IT DOESN'T WORK!! And of course i have a NVIDIA fx 5200 graphics card so the 3d desktop stuff don't work! yes i have got the correct kernel source, and installed the NVIDIA driver (8774) and its all ok. i wonder why not, maybe i have a config wrong somewhere, the error i get is "your system does not support 3d desktop fx" yet the 3d config tool say's i can have one of the 3d options (not the ai one) ? never mind its only eye candy after all but it would be nice to check it out ! anyway i like the look of 2007, its slick, good looking, and a bit quicker than 2006, overall impression is well done mandriva keep up the good work it shall be on my main machine by monday regards reb2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ixthusdan Posted October 7, 2006 Report Share Posted October 7, 2006 If you use the plf stuff, including the nvidia there, your 3D desktop will work just fine. You'll have to grab 2 rpms: the dkms and the nvidia. Of copurse, the kernel sources will have to be installed in order to compile the mod/driver. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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