[luau] Videl FTP

Eric Hattemer hattenator at imapmail.org
Wed Nov 27 10:44:00 PST 2002


Well, OpenBSD is usually the most solid of web servers.  But its a bit
archaic looking.  I really do love mandrake, though.  For packaging, the
first thing you do is set up your urpmi database.  First, find a
webserver that has a mandrake mirror.  Then, find its rpms.  An example
is
ftp://videl.ics.hawaii.edu/mirrors/mandrake/Mandrake/9.0/i586/Mandrake/RPMS/ .  Then find its hdlist.cz file, the file that contains the listing and info for the rpm files.  Its almost always ../base/hdlist.cz.  On some servers, you'll have a Mandrake/RPMS2, which should be connected to ../base/hdlist2.cz.  Videl seems to be set up a little non-standard about this.  CD 2 is ftp://videl.ics.hawaii.edu/mirrors/mandrake/Mandrake/9.0/contrib/RPMS/ and so the relative path to hdlist2.cz is ../../i586/Mandrake/base/hdlist2.cz , which is kind of a hassle.  But basically, if you want to add videl to your list, do a 

urpmi.addmedia Videl1 \
ftp://videl.ics.hawaii.edu/mirrors/mandrake/Mandrake/9.0/i586/Mandrake/RPMS/\
with ../base/hdlist.cz

urpmi.addmedia Videl2 \
 ftp://videl.ics.hawaii.edu/mirrors/mandrake/Mandrake/9.0/contrib/RPMS/\
with ../../i586/Mandrake/base/hdlist2.cz


Now you have Videl1 as an official mandrake package source, and Videl2
as a contrib package source.  Every now and then (every day for cooker
sources), do an "urpmi.update --auto", and that'll redownload the
lists.  If you want to upgrade every package, do "urpmi --auto-select". 
Otherwise just do "urpmi package-name".  It doesn't care whether you put
the version, etc, unless you want a specific version.  If you use zsh
(and you should), then you get tab completion with urpmi.  If you type
"urpmi XF<tab>", it gives you a list of all the XFree86 stuff along with
XFDrake (Or something like that).  If you accidentally add a slow
mirror, you can either comment it out of the file (something like
/etc/urpmi/sources.list), or go into the software sources manager and
uncheck it.  No need to delete it entirely, it might be useful someday. 
-Eric Hattemer

On Tue, 2002-11-26 at 19:51, eXt wrote:
> 1- Is Suse 8.1 or the latest Slackware in the Videl server?
> 
> 2- If not, can someone tell me a good d/l mirror? ( i tried 5 last
> night but the dl speed was 5-10 K)
> 
> 3- Anyone knows if mandrake 9 installs iptables by default? if not,
> what do i need to do to get them and install them?
> 
> 4- What is the "best" distro for a "Commercial web-server" (i know
> mandrake is newbie friendly...but i'm having more headaches trying to
> install stuff on it because of this)
> 
> 
> 
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