[ILUG] Simple RPM question

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Original Message:
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From: Fergal Moran fergal.moran at wasptech.com
Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2002 10:35:13 +0100
To: ilug at linux.ie
Subject: RE: [ILUG] Simple RPM question


> From: Enda [mailto:enda at unison.ie] 
> http://www.redhat.com/download/howto_download.html#download
> 
> > I have the ISO's for redaht 7.2 copied onto the server on which it
> is
> > installed.  I there a way of getting rpm to look at these rather
> than
> > looking for the CDs?  I don't mind mounting them if I have to.
>Thanks for this Enda - it would appear (from other replies also) that I
>was not clear enough in my explanation.  I know how to mount the ISOs -
>and install an individual rpm from it when I know the location and name
>of the rpm.  What I would like to be able to do is along the lines of
>apt - where I can set up these ISOs as an rpm source and do something
>along the lines of 
>"apt-get install <package>" and rpm will install it without me having to
>know exactly where the rpm is located.

Mandrake has this functionality with its urpmi software

I have a tutorial on my sit for seting up an rpm source here: http://sisob.dyndns.org/index?section=mandrake&page=netrpm 
The creating a source section is the only one that is relevant.

and for general use of urpmi here: http://sisob.dyndns.org/index?section=mandrake&page=urpmi

I'm not sure if redhat have any such functionality yet

Mark Finlay

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