On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 08:57:29AM +0100, Jesper Krogh wrote:
> On Wednesday 27 November 2002 04:17, daniel beck wrote:
>
> Nice, featurelist above.
>
> I miss a small feature too:
> If I'd like to install a rpm from say:
> http://testserver.com/path/to/smart-mandrake-stuff/filename.mdk.rpm
>
> I can do this:
> rpm -ivh http://testserver.com/path/to/smart-mandrake-stuff/filename.mdk.rpm
> And rpm will download it and install it, but if it has some dependencises it
> wil fail and i'll have to do this:
> wget http://testserver.com/path/to/smart-mandrake-stuff/filename.mdk.rpm
> urpmi ./filename.mdk.rpm
>
> The smart soloution would be to be able to do this:
> urpmi http://testserver.com/path/to/smart-mandrake-stuff/filename.mdk.rpm
>
> And it would install the file solving the dependencies as usual.
>
And my 2c :
It would be nice if urpmi supports multiple sources for the same
packages, and tries each in case of network failure, package not here...
transfert rate too low... Parallelization of package chunks (like
prozilla)...
