Example case: I have the first three CD's in the urpmi database, and I add the ftp site for the distro too.
now the stuff on the CD's1-3 is a subset of whats on the ftp site, eg OpenOffice.org-1.1-11mdk.i586.rpm is on CD1 and is on the ftp site. So what happens if I want to install OpenOffice.org? Does urpmi get it from the cd or from the ftp site? I would hope that it has some sense of the "cost" of each type of media, and goes for the "cheapest". [1] If I want to install a package that has 5 dependencies, and all but one are on cd's 1-3, will it do the sensible thing and just get the remaining one from ftp, and the cd ones locally? [1] of course the "cost" may vary depending on your situation, if you are on a fast lan network connection to the ftp site it is way quicker to let the network do its thing as opposed to shuffling cd's, and you can't do it unattended if you need to shuffle cd's. personally i hate all removable media, I can never find the damned things. useful but loathsome. -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
