Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4288 mails)

[Aniruddha <mailing_list@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 2007-10-26 at 20:37 +0100, David Bolt wrote:
> On Fri, 26 Oct 2007, Aniruddha wrote:-
>
> > I think you are far to used to openSUSE :p. I mean searching and
> > installing from online repositories. With rpm -i you can only install
> > local rpm's ;)
>
> 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.
>
>
> Regards,
>         David Bolt

you mean something like:

> rpm -i
> http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/openSUSE:10.3/standard/
> kdebase

This is hardly a working solution when compared to:

# zypper in $
# smart install $

Can the rpm system offer something better (similar to above samples)? It
would be great if you can define repositories for usage with rpm. 

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Aniruddha

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