Package List

[Jeremy Katz]

On Fri, 2004-06-04 at 15:02 -0500, Childers, Matthew wrote:
> Not sure if this is the right list or not, but I was wondering if 
> it would be possible to include a list of packages that the 
> distribution includes in a text file.  When I go to install a 
> package from the fedora cd’s I have to put in each cd, mount it, 
> then see if the package exists on that cd.  If not, I then have to 
> umount the cd, load up the next one and try again.  I was thinking 
> maybe something like /etc/packages that would look like this:

Make sure you have the comps and comps-extras packages installed and
then run something like the following

[katzj at bree katzj]$ python /usr/share/comps-extras/whichcd.py bash
bash-2.05b-38.i386.rpm is on disc 1

Cheers,

Jeremy