On Thursday 08 July 2004 03.21, chris h wrote:
On July 7, 2004 05:17 pm, Leendert Meyer wrote:
But these directories are not just "a bunch of rpm's". They have to meet certain criteria, as you can see if you browse the KDE example in my previous mail.
Yup thats the difference between old and new. The old version of yast could be pointed to any ftp directory and it would register the URL as a source and allow for installation. Dependency checks varied of course. This seems to be no longer the case with the current shipping version which is a shame to some degree as it was such a time saver..;)
I use red carpet for this. I used to use lufs (http://lufs.sourceforge.net) to mount the ftp server as a directory and then use red carpet to update from that directory. Haven't looked at lufs in a while though, and now that I do, it looks abandoned. I hope there is an alternative, because that was useful