On Tue, 28 Oct 2003 21:17:55 +0100 (CET) "Carlos E. R." wrote:

Ah... I remember that previously it would work only if the HD was physically different; it could be the case for SuSE 8.1.

No, he is talking about in YaST1 you can put some RPM's in a directory, point YaST1 to it and install them. This ability is missing in YaST2. These days I just use "rpm -Uvh *.rpm". Charles -- "Oh, I've seen copies [of Linux Journal] around the terminal room at The Labs." (By Dennis Ritchie)

On Tue, 28 Oct 2003 19:42:06 -0500 Patrick Shanahan wrote:

-i, --install install rpm package

Interesting, but in YaST1 one can point to the directory and selectively mark the packages to be install. Using YaST2 -i I might as well use rpm directly. Charles -- "Who is General Failure and why is he reading my hard disk ?" Microsoft spel chekar vor sail, worgs grate !! (By leitner@inf.fu-berlin.de, Felix von Leitner)

On Tue, 28 Oct 2003 20:14:46 -0500 Patrick Shanahan wrote:

But yast2 will also run SuSEconfig when it finishes the rpm.

Which is annoying. I know what I am installing and if running SuSEconfig is warranted, I will run it manually with the "module" option. Charles -- "A word to the wise: a credentials dicksize war is usually a bad idea on the net." (David Parsons in c.o.l.development.system, about coding in C.)

The 03.10.28 at 19:42, Patrick Shanahan wrote:

~# yast2 --help Usage: /sbin/yast2 [OPTIONS] [MODULE] [module specific parameters] [trim ...] OPTION: -i, --install install rpm package

<package> can be a single short package name (e.g. gvim) which will be installed with dependency checking, or the full path to an rpm package (e.g /tmp/gvim.rpm) which will be installed without dependency checking

Yes; but yast1 allowed you to to point to a directory, and even browse directories, and there choose which rpms to install and which not, and see the info about them previously. That yast2 can not do, and I miss it. -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson

The 03.10.28 at 19:13, Charles Philip Chan wrote:

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Ah... I remember that previously it would work only if the HD was physically different; it could be the case for SuSE 8.1.

No, he is talking about in YaST1 you can put some RPM's in a directory, point YaST1 to it and install them. This ability is missing in YaST2. These days I just use "rpm -Uvh *.rpm".

Right, that's correct. But also, yast would refuse to install linux taking as source a directory where all suse was downloaded, if the directory was on the same HD as the HD where the install was taking place. -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson

On Wed, 29 Oct 2003 13:22:38 PST Carl William Spitzer IV wrote:

Why not kpackage?

Because, if I am not mistaken, he wants a console based program. Charles -- "The world is beating a path to our door" -- Bruce Perens, (Open Sources, 1999 O'Reilly and Associates)

On Fri, 31 Oct 2003 12:49:12 +0100 Örn Hansen wrote:

But, he can tell yast2 to use a source medium that is a local directory, isn't that enough?

Try putting some rpm's in a local directory and point YaST2 to it- YaST2 will not allow you to do it. YaST1 will. Charles -- ..you could spend *all day* customizing the title bar. Believe me. I speak from experience." (By Matt Welsh)

On Thu, 30 Oct 2003 10:52:02 PST Carl William Spitzer IV wrote:

You open a console log in as root and therein run kpackage. CWSIV

He wants a console based (ie: ncurses based, slang based, etc) program. A lot of servers don't even have X installed. Charles -- I've run DOOM more in the last few days than I have the last few months. I just love debugging ;-) (Linus Torvalds)

On Fri, 31 Oct 2003 20:58:33 +0100 (CET) "Carlos E. R." wrote:

Yast2 works on a console; I have done remote maintenance by ssh over two modems. But it doesn't navigate directories of rpms as yast1 did (unless version 9 does).

I know. Have you tried purp? http://www.lysator.liu.se/purp/ Charles -- "...Unix, MS-DOS, and Windows NT (also known as the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly)." (By Matt Welsh)

On Fri, 31 Oct 2003 10:38:25 PST Carl William Spitzer IV wrote:

That leaves only RPM or perhaps a script which calls RPM.

Try purp: http://www.lysator.liu.se/purp/

As I remember that was one reason people miss Yast1

Yes. Charles -- Microsoft is not the answer. Microsoft is the question. NO (or Linux) is the answer. (Taken from a .signature from someone from the UK, source unknown)