[opensuse] DVD ISO vs. FTP Install
Hi List, Is there a specific reason why on the FTP install source I have much more RPMs available than on the DVD ISOs (x86-64). I ran into this issue as I wanted to install a game I received on a CD and wanted to compile it. Missing dependencies SDL_mixer for example. Ok.. I know SDL_mixer is installed but of course not the devel package (as per default). So adding it using from the DVD and... uups: no devel package around! Unfortunately, I don't have internet access at home yet (where I wanted to update these packages) and thus I only could try in the office to find these packages.. and to my surprise, they are available on the FTP Mirrors in the "inst-source" directory. just by counting, I have seen that there are more than 2000 RPMs more in the FTP Source. - What else am I missing on my installation now? - How can I easily add the missing things to my installation source (I copied the install dvd on my local HD). Regards, Dominique To date (2006), TMF has offices in: Amsterdam - Rotterdam - Brussels - Luxembourg - London - Brighton - Dublin - Paris - Geneva - Brunnen - Frankfurt - Vienna - Milan - Rome - Barcelona - Madrid - Copenhagen - Warsaw - Katowice - Prague - Bratislava - Budapest - Szekesfehervar - Ljubljana - Sofia - Zagreb - Bucharest - Timisoara - Belgrade - Kiev - Moscow - Tel Aviv - Dubai - Cape Town - Miami - Buenos Aires - S�o Paolo - Rio de Janeiro - Curitiba - Curacao - Tortola - Shanghai - Beijing - Guangzhou - Hong Kong TMF is expanding rapidly throughout the world. For up-to-date information we refer you to our website www.tmf-group.com. The information contained in this e-mail communication is confidential and solely intended for the person to whom it is addressed. If someone other than the intended recipient should receive or come into possession of this e-mail communication, he/she will not be entitled to read, disseminate, disclose or duplicate it. If you are not the intended recipient, you are requested to notify the sender and to destroy the original e-mail communication. TMF is neither liable for the correct and complete transmission of the information contained in this e-mail communication nor for any delay in its receipt. This footnote also confirms that this email message has been checked for the presence of computer viruses.
On 2006-06-16 11:16:20 +0200, Dominique Leuenberger wrote:
Is there a specific reason why on the FTP install source I have much more RPMs available than on the DVD ISOs (x86-64).
33GB vs 4GB(9GB) FTP vs downloadable DVD(DVD from the box)
I ran into this issue as I wanted to install a game I received on a CD and wanted to compile it. Missing dependencies SDL_mixer for example.
Ok.. I know SDL_mixer is installed but of course not the devel package (as per default). So adding it using from the DVD and... uups: no devel package around!
Unfortunately, I don't have internet access at home yet (where I wanted to update these packages) and thus I only could try in the office to find these packages.. and to my surprise, they are available on the FTP Mirrors in the "inst-source" directory.
just by counting, I have seen that there are more than 2000 RPMs more in the FTP Source.
- What else am I missing on my installation now? - How can I easily add the missing things to my installation source (I copied the install dvd on my local HD).
mirror the inst-source directory and carry it home. darix -- openSUSE - SUSE Linux is my linux openSUSE is good for you www.opensuse.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-help@opensuse.org
mirror the inst-source directory and carry it home.
Exactly. Morover, I think more rsync mirrors are needed. Rsync is more comfortable, flexible and reliable than ftp IMHO. -- Jordi Espasa Clofent Linux user id 332494 #http://counter.li.org/ PGP id 0xC5ABA76A #http://pgp.mit.edu/ FSF Associate Member id 4281 #http://www.fsf.org/
Hi, Dominique Leuenberger schrieb:
Is there a specific reason why on the FTP install source I have much more RPMs available than on the DVD ISOs (x86-64).
Yes, the reason is very simple: The whole FTP tree does not fit onto a DVD image.
- What else am I missing on my installation now?
Everything that in the FTP inst_source, but not on the DVD.
- How can I easily add the missing things to my installation source (I copied the install dvd on my local HD).
Ask somewhone with internet access to download the "whole" FTP inst_source (i586, i686, x86_64 and noarch only, of course, and not "everything"), copy it onto your harddisk, run "createrepo" on it and use that as YaST source. Andreas Hanke --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-help@opensuse.org
On 2006-06-16 11:30:10 +0200, Andreas Hanke wrote:
- How can I easily add the missing things to my installation source (I copied the install dvd on my local HD).
Ask somewhone with internet access to download the "whole" FTP inst_source (i586, i686, x86_64 and noarch only, of course, and not "everything"), copy it onto your harddisk, run "createrepo" on it and use that as YaST source.
how about just pulling the repodata dir thats inside the suse/ dir? (next to the i*86, x86_64 and noarch dir?) why make it complicated if you can have it simple and easy? darix -- openSUSE - SUSE Linux is my linux openSUSE is good for you www.opensuse.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-help@opensuse.org
Hi, Marcus Rueckert schrieb:
how about just pulling the repodata dir thats inside the suse/ dir? (next to the i*86, x86_64 and noarch dir?)
Well, the next step would be to download only those RPMs which are on the FTP and not on the DVD (maybe using a script that does some heuristics). That's what I had in mind, the provided repodata would reference not-existing packages then. Andreas Hanke --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-help@opensuse.org
Marcus Rueckert schrieb:
how about just pulling the repodata dir thats inside the suse/ dir? (next to the i*86, x86_64 and noarch dir?)
Well, the next step would be to download only those RPMs which are on the FTP and not on the DVD (maybe using a script that does some
rsync -PHScavz /media/dvd/ /tmp/final/ rsync -PHScavz ftp://xyz/ /tmp/final/ though there is almost no rsync mirror with -c around
heuristics). That's what I had in mind, the provided repodata would reference not-existing packages then.
Andreas Hanke
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Fredag 16 juni 2006 11:16 skrev Dominique Leuenberger:
Is there a specific reason why on the FTP install source I have much more RPMs available than on the DVD ISOs (x86-64).
There's limited space on a dvd. Likewise there are more packages on the dvd than on the 5-6 cds.
- What else am I missing on my installation now? - How can I easily add the missing things to my installation source (I copied the install dvd on my local HD).
Don't think there's an easy way without internet access. But guess you can mirror the inst-source at work. Would you prefer it if SUSE only provided 4 gigs of supported packages, so that everything would fit on a dvd? Martin / cb400f --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-help@opensuse.org
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