On Wed, Oct 08, 2003 at 04:38:23PM +0200, Buchan Milne wrote: > >>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?)
hmm, yes... > 2)If we were to use hdlists, we would have to find another 20MB of > packages to axe from the CDs. that's not acceptable I presume (or maybe we should already start discussing 700MB isos again /me ducking ) Some other format, simple plain text, gzip compressed? > > 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. yes, that would be the best thing probably. /Simon
