urpmex is a (small) suite of tools aiming to make Mageia system administration a bit more comfortable, especially when no graphical environment are available (i.e. remote terminals and so on).
Currently it provides three scripts:
- repos
- cuterepos
- kir
- urpm-downloader
There are other (graphical, thanks to Qt4) tools still under development, you can find them into the cuty directory
- Repositories
- PackageManager
repos allows the sysadmin to enable/disable/refresh all the available medias without having to recall their entire names.
cuterepos does the same job of repos but it provides an easiest user interface (thanks to ncurses)
kir is a small script that aims to preserve a fixed number of bootable kernels, dropping the old ones. Its behaviour (the number of kernel images kept) can be defined by the user. Consider that if you use urpme --auto-orphans even the kernel previously kept will be deleted keeping the last one only.
urpm-downloader was inspired by yum-downloader. It can download both source and binary rpms from the repositories. Currently it works with HTTP and FTP repositories only, rsync support is work in progress.
Use all of these tools at your own risk.
(C) 2012-2013 by Matteo Pasotti matteo@mageia.org