-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Friday 26 December 2003 7:25 pm, Guy Rouillier wrote: <whack> > Ok, I see what you are talking about, Carroll EDU seems to have an extra > contrib directory (that had the anjuta I wanted) that is not part of > cooker and appears not to be structured like the others. Under > /pub/linux/distributions/mandrake-devel are both a cooker and a contrib > subdirectory. If I look under cooker/i586/Mandrake, I do indeed see a > base directory with the files you describe. However, if I look in > contrib/i586, there are no subdirectories - all the RPMs are right there > (including the two . And I wouldn't expect to find descriptions for > those files in ../../cooker/i586/Mandrake/base, since the files in > contrib are not even in cooker.
But that's exactly where they are Guy. For consistency and ease of coding all of the relevant hdlists are always in /Mandrake/base with only synthesis files in the actual directory. URPMI is coded to look there for the package information it needs to deal with user requests. If you think of it that way it may make more sense because the prime reason for a list of available packages and the information to make it possible to avoid dependency problems is to *install* those packages. That means the list has to be somewhere consistent in the tree structure or it won't be found; then "cooker" or "release" become "slaughter and re-install" and that will never do. (-; What I'm saying is the hdlists should always be where they are (/Mandrake/base) so that urpmi doesn't become too unwieldy. > > My pleasure. I hope I was of some help. > > Absolutely, I would not have gotten this far without your insights. > Thanks again. You're very welcome Guy; but I have a question for you. You are free to refuse to answer, it's your choice: Are we havin' fun yet? <g> Charlie - -- Edmonton,AB,Canada User #244963 at http://counter.li.org Mandrake Linux release 9.2 (FiveStar) for i586 kernel 2.4.22-21.tmb.1mdk 10:18:56 up 6 days, 20:07, 1 user, load average: 0.12, 0.08, 0.07 I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life. -- Rita Rudner -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/7cFkZqvqlrLPr5YRAq9PAKCHBwr9tiQtKL77ClHHMz5eb0DQkwCePuSN q8RZqG0wyHvbN20gF+RhBW4= =5wPV -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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