On Sat, 27 Oct 2007, Aniruddha wrote:- > >On Fri, 2007-10-26 at 20:37 +0100, David Bolt wrote:
>> FSVO local including packages hosted on web and/or FTP servers. You can >> install packages using RPM by passing a URL(s). RPM will then download >> the package(s), sort out the correct order of installation, and install >> them. >you mean something like: > >>rpm -i >>http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/openSUSE:10.3/standard/ >>kdebase Almost. You need to specify the actual package name. > >This is hardly a working solution when compared to: > ># zypper in $ ># smart install $ It wasn't intended as a solution to the above. You posted that RPM needs the packages to be local. I posted to correct that and to allow you, and others that may not know about the ability to actually download packages, to learn something new about RPM. Heck, for a few years, and despite reading the RPM man pages several times, I still managed to miss this snippet from the RPM man page: <quote> rpm {-F|--freshen} [install-options] PACKAGE_FILE ... This will upgrade packages, but only if an earlier version currently exists. The PACKAGE_FILE may be specified as an ftp or http URL, in which case the package will be downloaded before being installed. See FTP/HTTP OPTIONS for information on rpm's internal ftp and http client support. </quote> and that was despite the "FTP/HTTP OPTIONS" being in nice bold letters. Regards, David Bolt -- Team Acorn: http://www.distributed.net/ OGR-P2 @ ~100Mnodes RC5-72 @ ~15Mkeys | SUSE 10.1 32bit | openSUSE 10.2 32bit | openSUSE 10.3 32bit SUSE 10.0 64bit | SUSE 10.1 64bit | openSUSE 10.2 64bit | RISC OS 3.11 | RISC OS 3.6 | TOS 4.02 | openSUSE 10.3 PPC -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
