On Tue, 2003-11-18 at 12:07, Jason Williams wrote:
> Last question.
>
> Is there a way to get a package description of the available packages
> through urpmi?
> I swear I was able to do so, but dont recall how to do it now. :/
urpmi urpmc and then use it to find what's available. (Only in 9.2 att
but the src rpm does build on 9.1)
>
> On a side note, anyone have any thoughts on whether 9.1 or 9.2 is better
> suited for production right now?
>
> Jason
>
> At 08:37 AM 11/14/2003 -0600, you wrote:
> >On Thursday 13 November 2003 08:27 pm, Vox wrote:
> > > On September 1993 plus 3725 days Jason Williams wrote:
> >
> > > > Is there a way to list the packages that are available to
> > > > download?
> > >
> > > "urpmq --list" will give you a list of all available
> > > packages, without versions. "urpmq --fuzzy samba" will give you
> > > all packages that have samba in the name or description. I
> > > recommend reading the man pages for all the urpm* commands.
> >
> > You can also install urpmc ('urpmi urpmc'). Then after you
> >update your sources, simply typing 'urpmc' will list all the
> >available updates (with version numbers) from all sources. EG,
> > tom # urpmc
> >club uses a synthesis file. Cannot output changelog.
> >Will list package names only. Reconfigure the medium to use
> >a hdlist file to get a changelog.
> >kernel-source-2.4.22-21mdk -> kernel-source-2.4.22-25mdk
> >
> > Even ones you may have in your /etc/urpmi/skip.list (I have
> >kernel-source in my skiplist). Suggestion, use
> >'synthesis.hdlist's for your sources, otherwise the list will
> >also include changelog, and could be very long. I get " Cannot
> >output changelog." because I only use synthesis.hdlist's.
> >--
> > Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas
> >
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>
>
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