Big Woz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > first of all, I'm not angry and I'm not bob.... > > Whenever I install a new Mandrake system for myself or someone else I > always set up urpmi to go snatch it's rpms from an external source > instead of the default CD's. to do this I of course have to > urpmi.removemedia all of the existing sources, and then urpmi.addmedia > all of the new ones. > > The thing that annoys me about this is the ridiculously long names of > the cdrom images.... usually I get to cut and paste, but on a couple > occasions I've had to type it in.... and even when you cut and paste, > the parentheses aren't escaped like the spaces are so you have to go > back and fix the removemedia line. > > I would like to request that the default names be shortened to > something more palletable than a 50+ character name. something like > "cdrom1-inst" would be nice. > > thanks for you time....
I will add a regexp matching for the name (if only one is found), this will allow to use cdrom1, cdrom2 (or nfs*, hd*, ftp*, http* according to install mode). Fran�ois.
