which Fedora cd contains which rpms?

Marc Williams marcw at onlymooo.com
Mon Nov 10 13:53:59 UTC 2003


On Mon, 2003-11-10 at 03:04, shrek-m at gmx.de wrote:
> Michael Mansour wrote:
> 
> > --- Globe Trotter <itsme_410 at yahoo.com> wrote: > How
> >  
> >
> >>do I get to know this? 
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >The way I've done this in the part is to use the tool
> >"whichcd" located at:
> >
> >http://sourceforge.net/projects/whichcd
> >  
> >
> 
> mount cd #1
> ls -R /mnt/cdrom >fc1-cd1
> mount cd #2
> ls -R /mnt/cdrom >fc1-cd2
> mount cd #3
> ls -R /mnt/cdrom >fc1-cd3
> 
> grep -i "whatyousearch" fc1*
> 
> 
> # grep -i caching fc1-*
> fc1-cd2:caching-nameserver-7.2-10.noarch.rpm

I've wondered about this myself.  I would think that including an index
of sorts of all three CDs on cd1 would be trivial.  Taken to another
level, it could include a little cataloging with descriptions, etc.






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