On Tue, 20 Jul 2004 22:03, Nick Rout wrote: > On Tue, 2004-07-20 at 20:42, dave wrote: > > On Tue, 20 Jul 2004 09:56, Nick Rout wrote: > > > if you need to make your own hdlist.cz (because the rpms on your cd are > > > your personal selection, not a straight copy of some mirror which > > > houses a matching hdlist.cz) then you can create one with the genhdlist > > > command. It has no manpage, but prints a nice --help entry. > > No i am wanting to do exactly as you described below but after trying to create a hdlist.cz via genhdlist. Help file is below
Usage: /usr/bin/genhdlist [options] [dir...] Options: --help print this message and exit --headersdir dir put temporary files in dir --dest build index from this dir -s silent mode --nobadrpm do not stop on bad rpm --noclean keep cache files --suffix SUFFIX put a suffix on hdlist names commands tried as root and as normal user are genhdlist --noclean --dest /home/dave/rpms/ ../../usr/bin error getting is can't create list file: Permission denied at /usr/bin/genhdlist line 78. just this minute logged in at root and got it. many thankx for your help nick it�s always great when someone gets a win. many thanks to you others too. -- Dave Lilley
