-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Simon Oosthoek wrote: > On Wed, Oct 08, 2003 at 01:37:27PM +0100, John Allen wrote: > >>On Wednesday 08 October 2003 12:27, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> >>>On 8 Oct 2003, Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: >>> >>>>And I'm sure many other persons use rpmdrake2 and are very happy >>>>with it. >>> >>>rpmdrake2 is wonderful. But, it still keeps surprising me how people >>>think. The last few days I've been helping a person trying to get mandrake >>>running. He's not so computer illiterate, but only knows windows and dos. >>>Somehow, he tried to install all kinds of programs from source or binary >>>tarbal, without even trying to use rpmdrake (ofcourse he might have not >>>found the programs he was looking for because only 1 CD was added as >>>media, since he only downloaded the first CD). So could rpmdrake >>>provide info on packages, even if there is no media available for it? >>> >> >>It does provide the list. The first CD should contain all the hdlists for the >>3 CDs. > > > and why not for contrib as well?
1)It's not supported (remember last weeks thread?) 2)If we were to use hdlists, we would have to find another 20MB of packages to axe from the CDs. > that list is known when the CD's go to the press, all the user would need to > do is configure networking and select a mirror. Which is no less difficult when the hdlists (or synthesis.hdlist.cz if on a slower connection) or not on the CDs ... you still have to know the mirror. In the end, integrating urpmi.setup is probably a better idea. Regards, Buchan - -- |--------------Another happy Mandrake Club member--------------| Buchan Milne Mechanical Engineer, Network Manager Cellphone * Work +27 82 472 2231 * +27 21 8828820x202 Stellenbosch Automotive Engineering http://www.cae.co.za GPG Key http://ranger.dnsalias.com/bgmilne.asc 1024D/60D204A7 2919 E232 5610 A038 87B1 72D6 AC92 BA50 60D2 04A7 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQE/hCFfrJK6UGDSBKcRAnYCAJwM1GpbqIt2s+edw/ZsS++DcwzPcACgvNtG 34xNVsN8Wa/i/6xx8eztDlg= =AuxT -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ***************************************************************** Please click on http://www.cae.co.za/disclaimer.htm to read our e-mail disclaimer or send an e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] for a copy. *****************************************************************
