urpmi limit on packages?

[William Unruh]

Does urpmi have a limit on the number af packages it can handle? I
istalled a new computer with mga9, and wanted bring the system up to
what was there in mga8. There were 1700 packages in Mga8 that were not
in the mga9 installation. I did

urpmi `cat diff`
where diff was that list of 1700 packages. I got a mess coming out of
that.
I finally did
fot i in `cat diff`; do urpmi $i; done
which took forever(hours rather than 10s of minutes) because it kept
listing all the files that had already been installed through
dependencies (something urpmi handles if that list had been smaller).
What is the limit on packages urpmi can handle?

[David W. Hodgins]

Post by William Unruh
Does urpmi have a limit on the number af packages it can handle? I
istalled a new computer with mga9, and wanted bring the system up to
what was there in mga8. There were 1700 packages in Mga8 that were not
in the mga9 installation. I did
urpmi `cat diff`
where diff was that list of 1700 packages. I got a mess coming out of
that.
I finally did
fot i in `cat diff`; do urpmi $i; done
which took forever(hours rather than 10s of minutes) because it kept
listing all the files that had already been installed through
dependencies (something urpmi handles if that list had been smaller).
What is the limit on packages urpmi can handle?

See "man urpmi" for the split-level and split-number options.

Regards, Dave Hodgins

[William Unruh]

Post by David W. Hodgins

Post by William Unruh
Does urpmi have a limit on the number af packages it can handle? I
istalled a new computer with mga9, and wanted bring the system up to
what was there in mga8. There were 1700 packages in Mga8 that were not
in the mga9 installation. I did
urpmi `cat diff`
where diff was that list of 1700 packages. I got a mess coming out of
that.
I finally did
fot i in `cat diff`; do urpmi $i; done
which took forever(hours rather than 10s of minutes) because it kept
listing all the files that had already been installed through
dependencies (something urpmi handles if that list had been smaller).
What is the limit on packages urpmi can handle?

See "man urpmi" for the split-level and split-number options.

But split-level says its default is 20. I do not believe this since I
have seen up to 50 packages at a time when installing and when carrying
out the procedure I did now when it did not work. It simply sat and
thought a while and then spewed out a huge number of errors. When I did
them one at time (it took forever) there were no errors at all. So
something seems to be broken.

Post by David W. Hodgins
Regards, Dave Hodgins