I like this method it sounds very useful but I get lost when you talk
about emacs, I'm not familiar with Emacs I use pico as my editor due to
its simplicity. Would you mind explaining exactly how I could set emacs up
to easily search for packages like this?
On Mon, 13 Nov 2000, Charles Curley wrote:
>
> I do something a bit different. Since most disties these days are multiple
> CD disties and the paths may vary with the CD, I like to get the complete
> path to the RPM in there as well. I do this with:
>
> find /mnt/cdrom -iname "*.rpm" -print -exec rpm -qilp {} \; >> packages.disty.txt
>
> Then I feed each CD in turn:
>
> mount /mnt/cdrom
> find /mnt/cdrom -iname "*.rpm" -print -exec rpm -qilp {} \; >> packages.disty.txt
> eject /mnt/cdrom
>
> Before each CD I use Emacs' revert-buffer facility to read in the file
> packages.disty.txt and add the name or number of the CD-ROM to be
> processed. "CD-ROM 2", e.g.
>
> That way, I can search the file for an item. Upon finding it, I can then
> do a reverse search on the phrase "CD-ROM" to locate the CD-ROM the
> relevant package is on. And I can cut and paste the complete path into an
> xterm ready for installation.
>
>
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