[Wolves] SuSE'rs

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On Wed, 2004-03-03 at 22:18, Mo Awkati wrote:
> Ron, A big thanks from me too. :-)
> 
> The only question I have is: once you are at the
> command line and you type rpm etc how does the command
> know where to look for the package? for example, how
> does it know the package is on afloppy and not a
> CD-ROM?
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Mo
> 
I'm guessing that it parses the files in /var/lib/urpmi/ where the list
of available packages (per OS install medium), of what's installed and
of updates is. Or at least that is where it is on my machine...