Packages

Mandriva

Mirror layout

PLF mirrors layout is organized following the following subdivisions. Note than some of them only apply to recent releases.

License

Packages are splitted according to their license in sections:

free contains packages unsuitable for Mandriva because of legal issues
non-free contains packages unsuitable for Mandriva because of license or copyright issues

Release mode

Starting from 2007.0, packages are also splitted according to their release mode:

release contains well-tested packages, and is only updated for serious bugs or security issues
backports contains newer package releases, but with far less testing, and some packages there may also require packages from Mandriva backports medias

Type

Starting from 2007.0, PLF packages are also splitted according to their type:

binary contains normal binary packages
debug contains debug binary packages, only needed for debugging purposes
source contains source packages

Notes

Official vs community

For 10.2 and 2006.0, packages are built against community branch of Mandriva, which is actually a living version of the official branch, with all updates merged instead of being distributed separately. For this reason, using official branch in conjunction with PLF packages is strongly discouraged.

Source packages

We are now distributing source packages for all our packages without distinction. However, due to mirror reorganisation, those source packages are only available for 2007.0 and later releases.

Announcement

New packages are announced for the development branch (cooker/i586) only through plf-announce read-only mailing list and on changelog rss feed.

Installation

urpmi

Thanks to urpmi it is very easy to use PLF. If you don't know how to add an urpmi source, Easy urpmi will teach you how to do it. Ensure you also have the 'community contribs' among your urpmi medias, as many PLF packages depend on these packages. You can find them on every mandriva mirror.

Keys

All PLF packages are signed with the project key. You can download it here. In order to have urpmi automatically check the packages during installation, you have to configure your system first.

Procedure until Mandriva 9.1 (included)

You have to import the key into root's keyring. Here is the manual procedure:

lynx -source http://plf.zarb.org/plf.asc | gpg --import

Procedure since Mandriva 9.2 (included)

You have to import the key into the rpm database. Setting up the urpmi medium should do this automatically for you, including restricting the use of the PLF key to the PLF media. Anyway, here is the manual procedure:

lynx -source http://plf.zarb.org/plf.asc > plf.asc;
rpm --import plf.asc
rm -f plf.asc

Problem resolution

Take cares to read carefully this page and the FAQ for common questions. If your problem is not answered there, use Bugzilla, or plf-discuss mailing-list if no entry is available.