On ���, 2002-01-27 at 16:15, Roger wrote:
>
> I had to hunt down each cdrom of the 3 cdrom set to find the correct
> rpm. Maybe a similar (complete listing) html format or text/ascii
> listing should also be included on all 3 cdroms for users to easily find
> out what's on which cdrom? *this could be easily done*
>
Sorry?! You do know about urpmi, do not you?
{pts/1}% sudo less /var/lib/urpmi/list.Installation\ CD\ \(disk1\)
removable://mnt/hd/cooker/i586/Mandrake/RPMS/docbook-dtd412-xml-1.0-7mdk.noarch.rpm
removable://mnt/hd/cooker/i586/Mandrake/RPMS/libsnmp0-4.2.2-2mdk.i586.rpm
removable://mnt/hd/cooker/i586/Mandrake/RPMS/xdosemu-1.0.1-8mdk.i586.rpm
removable://mnt/hd/cooker/i586/Mandrake/RPMS/drakfloppy-0.43-8mdk.i586.rpm
removable://mnt/hd/cooker/i586/Mandrake/RPMS/libpcre0-3.9-2mdk.i586.rpm
removable://mnt/hd/cooker/i586/Mandrake/RPMS/libglib1.2-devel-1.2.10-4mdk.i586.r
...
repeat for every list file if you insist on manual install. Else just do
urpmi some-rpm
and it will request correct CD for you.
Why write tools that nobody is using?
> i pretty much use rpmfind.net to find out other deps and rpm -qi info.
>
Wow! Now that's amusing :-)
-andrej
