Sorry for this late reply. I found how to do this.
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Originally Posted by nitish_mythology
unni
Couldnt get the difference!
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Sorry man. I thought that it was I who had made the mistake, and that you were pointing it out. That's why I replied like that. When I used the terms "mirror" and "download", I had in my mind exactly what
tech_your_future,
eagle_y2j and
Kalpik told you.
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There is a utility in Mandriva called
genhdlist which can be used to generate the required
hdlist.cz, synthesiz.hdlist.cz & md5sum files for any group of rpms. To get what I had in my mind, I split each of the sections into DVD sized ones. Thus, I had 4 folders named DVD-1, DVD-2, DVD-3 & DVD-4. The contents on each are as follows:
Main part-1(4.2 GB) on DVD-1
Main part-2+
Contrib part-1 (800 MB + 3.5 GB) on DVD-2
Contrib part-2 (4 GB) on DVD-3
PLF Free+PLF Non Free+Others (2.1 GB) on DVD-4
Updates (800 MB) on DVD-4
Here the names in bold represent folder names. Then, I created a subfolder under each with the name
media_info_custom. After that, I launched the terminal and changed directory to one of these main (not
Main) folders, and issued the command
genhdlist --md5sum --subdir media_info_custom. After sometime, the required files were generated under the
media_info_custom subfolder. Then, I burned them on DVDs and added as media to Software Manager.
The only problem is that you can have only one main folder in each DVD. The reason is that, when you select software for installation in which different rpms are located in different discs, urpmi will automatically eject the drive, ask you to insert the correct medium, copies rpms that are present in it, ejects it again and asks you to insert the next medium, and so on. So, if more than one medium/folder say 5 folders) is present in the same disc, and if it needs to copy files from these 5 'media', it will eject the drive 5 times even though the disc is the same for all 5. So, I had to put all the PLF Free, PLF Non Free, Extra etc. sections into a single folder.
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Originally Posted by eddie
I used Mandriva long long time ago (in its Mandrake 8.2 times) but iirc hdlist.cz is just an archive with a text file containing name and version of all the rpms in that section.You can open it in ark and see.
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I tried to open the
hdlist.cz file in Ark. But it gave me an error indicating unsupported archive type.
How to burn mirror of Mandriva 07 repository in DVDs?
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Re: How to burn mirror of Mandriva 07 repository in DVDs?
. I was thinking about something like this (i.e.,mirroring repo) for the past one and a half months that these 2 words kinda began meaning the same for me. Anyway, this is what I did that led me to write the mixed up sentence. I first got the ftp links from easyurpmi website and used FlashGet (in Windows) to download them. After completing all the downloads (Main, Contrib, Updates etc.), I used FireFTP plugin for Firefox to check for changes and synchronize the folders on local side. Thus, I had a mirror of the repository except for the directory structure. 
Re: How to burn mirror of Mandriva 07 repository in DVDs? [Solved]
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