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Been a while since used urpmi. Using Mag 2 and have unchecked "delete downloaded rpms after successful install" in media manager. I thought they were in /var/cache/urpmi/rpms but there is nothing there after having downloaded some stuff.

Has location been changed since MDK 2008.1?

Also a quick explanation of the meaning of (distr x) after each mirror?

Thanks

IIRC unchecking that option in rpmdrake doesn't work. You need to edit /etc/urpmi/urpmi.cfg and insert

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{
post-clean :0
}

or use urpmi with the --noclean option from the command line.

Jim

A bug report has been opened by someone today. Here's the link for anyone seeing this thread who may want to follow developments.

https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8492

Jim

Yes that was me and apparently accepted. Been a while since I used mdk/mdv and rpmdrake.

Could you kindly explain the (distrib x) after each repo listing in media manager?

Thanks

"distrib-x" is a unique name assigned to the source. This is necessary in order to distinguish among media sources - if, for example you set up two or more sets of sources. Your sources have been set up using the GUI media manager which assigns the names distrib-1, distrib-2 etc.

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man urpmi.addmedia

provides more technical information.

Jim

You only get that if you're adding the repos via MCC/drakrpm-edit-media.
As i don't have them (adding my repos via urpmi --distrib) i can only try to remember.
The range from 10-19 are used for Core repo, 20-29 for Nonfree and 30-39 for Tainted.
Every repo has the same branches, and they are counted ascending from 0 to 9:

Release
Release Debug
Updates
Updates Debug
Updates Testing
Updates Testing Debug
Backports
Backports Debug
Backports Testing
Backports Testing Debug

You may want to read a bit about the mirror setup https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Mirrors_policy

Thanks for the tips.

doktor5000 wrote:As i don't have them (adding my repos via urpmi --distrib) i can only try to remember.

On a 64 bit cauldron, I have

core: distrib1 thru distrib10
nonfree: 11 thru 20
tainted: 21 thru 30
core (32 bit): 31 thru 40.

(Sources added using the ADD option in the GUI media manager.)

Jim

jkerr82508 wrote:

doktor5000 wrote:As i don't have them (adding my repos via urpmi --distrib) i can only try to remember.

core (32 bit): 31 thru 40.

Ahh, yes, forgot that one. But otherwise i was only off by one, that can happen in IT