On Tue, 08 Feb 2000, Stefan Troeger wrote:
Hi,
On Tue, Feb 08, 2000 at 16:31 -0600, Jon Pennington wrote:
There's your disc. Unfortunately, you cannot simply mirror the /updates hierarchy from and ftp site, burn it onto a CD-ROM, and use it as-is, because there are no files to tell YaST what is on the disc, and YaST doesn't read symlinks. You'd be stuck using the short file names (package.rpm) which cause problems down the road when doing a full system release update (6.2 -> 6.3, for
What problems does this cause? AFAIK if you install a package with a short name, the RPM database will store the long name nevertheless.
It's a fantastic theory, and all of the documentation points to the same thing that you are saying. Unfortunately, `Incomparable Version Number' is a message that I've seen too many times to recount. -- -=|JP|=- Jon Pennington | Atipa Linux Solutions -o) jpennington@atipa.com | Kansas City, MO /\\ 816-241-2641 x107 | http://www.atipa.com _\_V -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/