On Mon, Nov 13, 2000 at 11:45:30PM -0400, skidley wrote:
> 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?
You could probably use Pico for this as well. I specified emacs because it
has a reverse search: hit C-r and you search backwards. That lets me
create the file by entering the name of the CD, then reading each CD.
I suppose if pico doen't have a reverse search, you can build the file by
reading the CD, then entering the label. That way, you find the package
you want, then search forward to the label.
Also, for building the file, emacs lets you revert (reload) the buffer,
which is easier than closing it down and re-opening it to reload the
buffer.
Emacs has a tremendous learing curve; after almost ten years with emacs
and variants, I'm still learning about it. But it is a very powerful
environment, so I have found it well worth learning. I used to do a lot of
work on NT and W9x, where I also used emacs, and found it the best editor
available. So I also recommend it for portability. I believe vi is
available for NT, but I am not aware of any ports of pico to NT.
>
> 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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