[Cooker] Re: mdkapplet summary

[Luc Menut]

Thierry Vignaud a écrit :
> I'm summarizing the misunderstood points about urpmi db locking with
> mdkapplet since lot of people believe wrong things.
...
> mdkapplet (really urpmi.updatemeida) only lock the urpmi DB while
> updating the DB, which is usually fast since:
>
> - we only update the few media flaggedf as  "update" (which by default
> are: main/updates, contrib/updates & non-free/updates)

It seems to me that backports are silently updated too, even if they are 
inactive and not checked as update.
This is a problem for me, because I often configure all the media on at 
least 2 different mirrors. When one of the server is down, I disable the 
corresponding media in order that mdkapplet runs fine, but mdkapplet 
still tries to update each backport on the server which is down (until 
the FTP timeout), so that mdkapplet runs for a very long time for nothing.
The only solution in this case is to remove backport media, ... not very 
practical!!
For that, it's very annoying that mdkapplet doesn't respect the media 
configuration for backports.

If I've misunderstood, please accept my apologies.

best regards,

Luc