Thanks for the quick response :) I understand now what it is used for. I was thinking it was more for just a listing of the files and had nothing to do with relationships between RPMs.
Justin T On Thursday 28 March 2002 18:18, Guillaume Rousse wrote: > Ainsi parlait Justin T. : > > Hey, > > > > I just wanted to know the possibility of adding an options that I think > > might make life easier (for me at least): > > > > - hdlist creation from dir listing or FTP connections with no hdlist > > required. > > > > The reasoning (for me) behind this is that I would like to add the FTP > > sites from pclinuxonline (especially the Project Athlon, which is > > particularily interesting to me.) There is however no hdlist.cz in the > > directories and without this I cannot add them to urpmi or rpmdrake. > > This used to work at one point a while ago, but no longer. > > > > Otherwise I am doing something wrong, in which case please feel free to > > let me know the error of my ways :) > > urpmi needs to know of relationships between rpm (what requires what) to > work, that is the point of this index (a complete hdlist.cz or a lighter > synthesis file). So you can't use it for a raw remote rpm repository.
