[Wolves] SuSE'rs

Adam Sweet drinky76 at yahoo.com
Thu Mar 4 09:43:35 GMT 2004


 --- "simonb+geek-web.co.uk" <simonb at geek-web.co.uk>
wrote: > 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...

Or you can specify the exact path to the rpm if you
downloaded it. Probably.

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