How do I exclude unneeded files from channel updates

[Anders F Björklund]

Steve Morris wrote:

> Hi Anders,
>    I am having extreme difficulties undertaking channel updates because of key failures on various info.xml.lzma files. These files are not required for channel updates, and the Mandriva equivalent of the smart gui interface only attempts to download these info files when the user requests additional information on a package. How do I exclude these info.xml.lzma files from the channel update process so that I can actually update all the channels?

Key failures ? What are those (error msg) ?

It should only download info.xml.lzma if present in MD5SUM

>    Also, is it possible to have the smart channel definitions use the same files as the Mandriva package manager, so that I can undertake channel updates in either package and have both see any changes?

This should be possible with the "urpmichannelsync" plugin:

smart config --set sync-urpmi-medialist=true

--anders