On Wednesday 22 May 2002 00:00, Gary Counsellor wrote: - Suse 7.3 rpms should still be available at ftp.suse.com Thanks for the advice. Unfortunately, my experience is where as the Linux motto is "freedom to choose", the motto of ftp.suse.com should be "freedom to confuse" everything is just thrown together. An example would be to ask the question: how do I do a default install of KDE 3? By default, I mean in my case, installing the same standard apps, interface, etc. that were installed when I installed SuSE 7.3 Pro for the first time on my machine. Everything is just thrown together. What about a separate directory for KDE 3, a separate directory for an advanced install and some read me files that cover the dependency issues involved in upgrading. How about including the dependencies in the same directory or at least aliases of the file/package dependencies? Your advise is sound. It isn't your fault that ftp.suse.com isn't more user friendly, but unfortunately, that IS still the case. Cheers, Brian
* Brian Durant (durant@cbn.net.id) [020521 19:14]:
Your advise is sound. It isn't your fault that ftp.suse.com isn't more user friendly, but unfortunately, that IS still the case.
It's designed to be used by yast/yast2, not manually. You can all rpms symlinked into the {platform}/{version}/full-names/{platform} directory if that's what you want. -- -ckm
On Wednesday 22 May 2002 09:17, Christopher Mahmood wrote: - It's designed to be used by yast/yast2, not manually. You can all - rpms symlinked into the {platform}/{version}/full-names/{platform} - directory if that's what you want. Oh really? I would have thought that would have come up in our user interface wish list debate, as there were a number of poster that thought YOU was only designed for security updates. This would be something to go in more detail with for the rest of the list as well. Thanks for your comment and I hope that you or someone else on the list will post more about this in greater detail. Cheers, Brian
Please don't cc me, I'm subscribed to the list. * Brian Durant (durant@cbn.net.id) [020521 19:27]:
On Wednesday 22 May 2002 09:17, Christopher Mahmood wrote: - It's designed to be used by yast/yast2, not manually. You can all - rpms symlinked into the {platform}/{version}/full-names/{platform} - directory if that's what you want.
Oh really?
Yes, really.
This would be something to go in more detail with for the rest of the list as well. Thanks for your comment and I hope that you or someone else on the list will post more about this in greater detail.
I'm not sure what other details there are. The prudent ftp'er downloads a new copy of /pub/ls-Ral.txt.gz every few days and greps that to find a specific file or uses the full-names directories. If you are installing something that has a lot of dependencies or you don't know what the dependencies are off the top of your head you should yast to install the package. -- -ckm
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