On Wed, 2003-03-19 at 07:40, Leon Brooks wrote: > On Wednesday 19 March 2003 05:39 pm, Chad wrote: > > Then simply type some thing along the lines of urpms (urpmi for SRPMS) > > urpms –flags=”--mach=k6-2 -o3” kde-full > > urpms would then sort out the dependencies required for a full install of > > kde the kde packages build them in the correct order with the CFLAGS and > > CXXFLAGS set to the –flags option and install them setting up kdm or mdkdm. > > I'd also like to be able to do the same with gcc so “ urpms –flags=xxx > > gcc” > > Hear, hear! (-: > > I'd also like to implement a simple technique for turning the updates list > into an incremental download. New updates are simply appended to an alternate > hdlist.cz-ish file (gzip has always known how to cope with this) - maybe call > it hdlist.incz - and all urpmi has to do is `resume' downloading against its > cached version to get only the bits of the hdlist that have changed since it > last looked. This would turn megabytes-long re-downloads of the updates list > into kilobytes-long resyncs.
Correct me if I'm wrong here but couldn't urpmi.update -a just use rsync to grab the hdlist. I'm thinking that if you have it once and since the name never changes the second++ time you grab it it would always be an incremental change... not a whole download. James > > > 3)The final suggestion I have is for the creation of an App called > > something like drakecooker or cookerdrake. This would be a program for > > helping with cooker testing. > > Hear, hear! > > Cheers; Leon > >
