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#urpmi.removemedia -a
On Friday 16 November 2001 03:03 pm, you wrote:
> first of all, I'm not angry and I'm not bob....
>
> Whenever I install a new Mandrake system for myself or someone else I
> always set up urpmi to go snatch it's rpms from an external source
> instead of the default CD's. to do this I of course have to
> urpmi.removemedia all of the existing sources, and then urpmi.addmedia
> all of the new ones.
>
> The thing that annoys me about this is the ridiculously long names of
> the cdrom images.... usually I get to cut and paste, but on a couple
> occasions I've had to type it in.... and even when you cut and paste,
> the parentheses aren't escaped like the spaces are so you have to go
> back and fix the removemedia line.
>
> I would like to request that the default names be shortened to
> something more palletable than a 50+ character name. something like
> "cdrom1-inst" would be nice.
>
> thanks for you time....
>
> --adam
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