n Sat, 2007-10-27 at 12:37 +0100, David Bolt wrote:
> >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.
> >
That's what meant with kdebase ;)
> >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
I definitely learned something new. Thank you for correcting me :)
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