Re: [Cooker] Request: hdlist for Contribs

[Fran�ois Pons]

Alexander Skwar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> So sprach Salane King am Tue, Jul 03, 2001 at 05:56:16PM -0400:
> > You can just addmedia for contribs. Of course when you do a urpmi -a gcc then 
> > you would add also gcc-3 for instance. 
> 
> Pardon me, but how?
> 
> [root@teich mnt]# urpmi.addmedia Contribs 
>ftp://sunsite.uio.no/pub/unix/linux/Mandrake-devel/contrib/i586/
> [......]
> no hdlist file found for medium "Contribs"

Yes, you can only do it for local repository (cdrom, disk) or nfs network.

Effectively, that could be a good idea but some times you will get contrib
packages, ie package that need tweaking to run.

Fran�ois.