https://qa.mandrakesoft.com/show_bug.cgi?id=577
Product: urpmi
Component: urpmi
Summary: Cannot "exclude" a path when installing
Version: 4.0-9mdk
Platform: PC
OS/Version: All
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Severity: major
Priority: P2
AssignedTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
ReportedBy: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[ I had to file this against 4.0-9mdk even though 4.1-2mdk is the latest because
bugzilla on qa.mandrakesoft.com is not up to date with package releases ]
urpmi has no means to exclude a path from being installed as the rpm
"--excludepath" option does.
Having this sort of mechanism is absolutely necessary to administer boxes which
have portions of their filesystem shared from another host, as in mounting /usr
NFS from a workgroup server because software being installed on a client should
not try to install in/on /usr. This would become ever so much more important in
administering a cluster of hundreds of Mandrake boxes which all shared their
/usr from a master server.
urpmi becomes useless in this type of enviroment and as such requires the user
to fallback to using rpm with all of it's deficiencies (dependancy resolution
for instance!).
** Anybody who wants to NFS mount /usr should vote for this bug!! **
------- You are receiving this mail because: -------
You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is.
