Mandrakesoft made for us urpmi, one of the best tools for managing rpms. Let's use it ! I have done these contrib CDs myself :
I have downloaded the entire contrib directory and burned it on 2 CDs (a total of about 1.1Go !) Then I added as usual : urpmi.addmedia "Contrib CD1" removable://mnt/cdrom urpmi.addmedia "Contrib CD2" removable://mnt/cdrom After a long time (about 20/30 min per CD !) I have a contrib media that allows me to install a lot of softwares and to solve dependencies with the plf packages (for example, you need liba52 when installing mplayer). Of course it would be better to freeze an "official" contrib for 9.0, but this method works very well, especially since cooker packages are still frozen (even if some contrib packages have been updated today.) Another way would be to use urpmi.addmedia Contrib ftp://blabla with synthesis.hdlist2.cz to have a download by ftp. Since I have just a 56K modem, I prefered the first solution, downloading the entire contrib directory at my work and burning it on CD. Moreover, ou are sure to keep one working copy of these packages until cooker is "defrost" and receives unstable/broken packages for the next version. Hope this helps. BTW : what is the difference between a hdlist.cz file and synthesis.hdlist.cz file ? Eric Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > I agree, I was very dissapointed when I noticed NONE of the 9.0 ISO's > had Abiword on them. I had to upgrade it using cooker packages. 9.0 Disk > > 3 was not even close to full and I'm wondering why more packages didn't > > make it on the CD...many people don't know about the Cooker packages > being available and, as stated, as they progress they break > compatability with 9.0 anyway. We need a contrib ISO for 9.0 IMHO. > Perhaps just call it CD4. > > Cheers, > > Jason > > I miss RPM's 4 on CD3....sigh > > P.S. Great work Mandrake team on an awesome distro!! > > David Walser wrote: > > --- Lenny Cartier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >>On Thu, Sep 26, 2002 at 12:04:07PM +0200, Buchan > >>Milne wrote: > >> > >>>I presume the contrib tree will be copied across > >> > >>to stable later, but > >> > >>>when? Is it worthwhile making small fixes to > >> > >>packages in contribs now? > >> > >>>Will new packages (just got cdbakeoven compiling, > >> > >>thus it just went in > >> > >>>last night) make it into 9.0 contrib? > >>> > >>>Lenny? > >> > >>Contribs have been forked to make an extra cd for > >>powerpacks. So maybe > >>we can put this content under the 9.0 tree; but it's > >>not the whole > >>contribs repository, just some subjective choices... > > > > > > That'd be a shame, there's some good stuff in contribs > > that never made the CDs, it'd be too bad if people > > could have all that good stuff to add to 9.0. And > > actually, if they can't, what's the point of contrib? > > Just something for us few Cookers? > > > > __________________________________________________ > > Do you Yahoo!? > > New DSL Internet Access from SBC & Yahoo! > > http://sbc.yahoo.com > > > > >
