what i'm about to suggest is blindingly simple, but really
pretty useful. for each release of red hat, i create a separate
partition and filesystem to store the directory structures of
all of the installation CDs, and mount it under /cds. i
explicitly keep the different CD contents in
On Thursday 16 May 2002 01:57, you wrote:
After I completed the initial install, I wanted to go back and add a few
other packages. Is there any RH tool or way to do this other than
mounting each CD and browsing the RedHat/RPMS directory to find what you
want?
I was also frustrated when I
I am only a part time RH user (mostly SuSE), but I wanted to take a look
at the new 7.3.
After I completed the initial install, I wanted to go back and add a few
other packages. Is there any RH tool or way to do this other than
mounting each CD and browsing the RedHat/RPMS directory to find
What I did is generate 2 txt files with the contents of each CD:
rpm -qipl /mnt/cdrom/RedHat/RPMS RHdisk_1
I know the files are big, but they are handy when I need a specific file inside an RPM
Hope this helps
Francisco
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I am only a part time RH user
On Wed, May 15, 2002 at 12:57:00PM -0500, Francisco Neira wrote:
What I did is generate 2 txt files with the contents of each CD:
rpm -qipl /mnt/cdrom/RedHat/RPMS RHdisk_1
I know the files are big, but they are handy when I need a specific file
inside an RPM
Youch. I can see how the
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On Wednesday 15 May 2002 01:45 pm, Keith Winston wrote:
I am only a part time RH user (mostly SuSE), but I wanted to take a
look at the new 7.3.
After I completed the initial install, I wanted to go back and add a
few other packages. Is there
At 5/15/2002 01:45 PM -0400, you wrote:
After I completed the initial install, I wanted to go back and add a few
other packages. Is there any RH tool or way to do this other than
mounting each CD and browsing the RedHat/RPMS directory to find what you
want?
Also, I noticed that some php rpms
On Wed, May 15, 2002 at 06:00:00PM -0400, Michael Fratoni wrote:
After I completed the initial install, I wanted to go back and add a
few other packages. Is there any RH tool or way to do this other than
mounting each CD and browsing the RedHat/RPMS directory to find what
you want?
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On Wednesday 15 May 2002 08:15 pm, Keith Winston wrote:
http://www.tuxfan.homeip.net:8080/rpms/whichcd-0.1-1.i386.rpm
http://www.tuxfan.homeip.net:8080/rpms/whichcd-0.1-1.src.rpm
Thanks! I've give it a whirl.
Hope you find them helpful. I've
