That looks good.
Thanks :-) It's one of those problems Red Hat doesn't (or didn't use to) have - if there's only 1 CD, no problem. With 6, the fun starts... Yast is a great tool, but to get any package info out of it it needs to have and scan a CD, for even better info it has to be the first CD - the amount of time that takes is simply not acceptable. Neither is that it has to be run as root (I think). After all that trouble, yast still doesn't answer questions like "is there a package which provides file ABC", which I have all the time.
Now the next facility you need is to get it to somehow loginto Suse and find out all the updates and patches that have been made since the CD's were burnt and what packages are therefore out of date ... :)
Now *that* is a damn good suggestion! It's probably not so easy to code though. If there was an index like ftp.ctan.org/tex-archive/FILES.byname.gz (the CTAN index) things would be easier (SuSE: HINT HINT HINT). Failing that, anyone knows how to get wget -r ftp://ftp.suse.com/... to only save all the .listing files, but not to download anything else? Better, how to get a decent directory listing with full path names and file dates and sizes? Finding out what can/should/need to be updated, for what reason, and checking MD5 sums has always been a nightmare with SuSE... :-( Volker