Viestiss� Torstai 17. Hein�kuuta 2003 22:21, Andi Payn kirjoitti: > On Thursday 17 July 2003 11:59, Olof Bjarnason wrote: > > Thanks for your advice, although I have some more questions :) > > > > #> Is this a bug? > > #No. > > > > If not a bug - what is it? Should the combination of actions > > which I took not lead to installation of a "custom" rpm? > > This implies there are 'special' packages, or Mandrake-packages, in > > which case at least I would favor a notification upon clicking on > > such a "foreign" package. For example, it would be helpful if > > Mandrake tells me "Warning: Non-Mandrake package. Install > > manually with urpmi" when I click on my 'abc.rpm'. > > The urpmi tools are not about packages, but about urpm sources, which are > repositories of packages. > > So, the short answer is: You must build a custom urpm source containing > your custom packages before you can use urpmi to install those packages. > Just copying the rpm's into a directory is not enough. >
Not entirely correct... If you copy a rpm (or many rpms...) to an empty directory, and issue ' urpmi * ' in that directory, urpmi will try to install all packages in that directory, trying to resolve the dependencies by using the packages in that directory and the packages known to it through it's defined sources... Of course if urpmi still can't resolve the dependencies for some of the packages, it won't install those... Regards Thomas
