Package List

Childers, Matthew mchilders at bentonville.k12.ar.us
Fri Jun 4 22:22:52 UTC 2004


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
>


Great Script, man.  That's perfect.  Thanks for the help.





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