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Re^5: What is the format of a .packlist file for a PPM repository?

by LittleGreyCat (Scribe)
on Oct 21, 2007 at 21:51 UTC ( [id://646322]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Re^4: What is the format of a .packlist file for a PPM repository?
in thread What is the format of a .packlist file for a PPM repository?

Quick follow up:

I installed 5.8.8 822 on a clean (XP) system connected to the Internet and ran the PPM GUI

I was presented with a long list of packages available - 6949 - and the names.

As a test I installed perl-ldap and this seemed to go O.K.

I then added my local PPM repository (across a LAN) and disabled the default PPM repository.

Although PPM spent a long time reading the repository across the LAN at the end it did not list any packages available.

So it seems that I am not mis-understanding the GUI; when connected across the Internet to the default PPM repository I get the expected results. When connected to my local PPM repository there are indications that PPM has searched the repository and is aware of what is in it. It just doesn't seem to list them in the 'All Packages' area nor in the summary line at the bottom.

Nothing succeeds like a budgie with no teeth.

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Re^6: What is the format of a .packlist file for a PPM repository?
by randyk (Parson) on Oct 21, 2007 at 22:13 UTC
    Adding a local repository in 822 works OK for me with the GUI. Might there be some firewall, proxy, or permission issues?
      Does your local repository have the packaging summary files?

      In my current local repository all I have is a directory with 'ppd' files and below that a directory with the zipped code

      This works with the old version of command line 'ppm' but so far I haven't been able to get the new version to work with it as it stands.

      When I get back on it I plan to use your helpful information about building the packaging files and see if this solves the problem.

      Bottom line - my old repository has stopped working with the new 'ppm'. I think I see how to fix it but I am still undecided if this is a 'BUG' or a 'FEATURE' :-)

      Nothing succeeds like a budgie with no teeth.
        My local repository works with and without the summary files; if a summary file is there, it uses it, and if it's not, it downloads and parses each ppd file it finds.

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