Re: FC-2 Add/Remove Applications rant ...

From: Charles Howse (chowse_at_charter.net)
Date: 05/31/04

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Date: Mon, 31 May 2004 09:23:37 -0500

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    On Sunday 30 May 2004 04:27 pm, William Hooper wrote:
    > Shaun T. Erickson said:
    > > <rant>
    > > Why is it that it insists on only looking for the rpms on the
    > > installation CDs? Why can't I tell it to brose to the local directory,
    > > where I have all of them stored?
    >
    > less /usr/share/doc/system-config-packages-1.2.12/README
    >
    > "You can instead use a Red Hat Linux installation tree with the option
    > '-tree=/path/to/tree' or use a directory with Red Hat Linux ISO images
    > with the option '--isodir=/path/to/dir'."

    This is excellent information, however, I tried it and get the following
    error:

    [charles@moe charles]$ l /home
    total 24
    drwx------ 35 charles charles 4096 May 31 08:39 charles
    drwxrwxr-x 2 root root 4096 May 31 08:35 fc2_iso
    drwx------ 2 root root 16384 May 20 04:20 lost+found

    [charles@moe charles]$ l /home/fc2_iso
    total 2247632
    - -rw-rw-r-- 1 root root 681377792 May 31 08:48 fc2.disc1.iso
    - -rw-rw-r-- 1 root root 665755648 May 31 08:58 fc2.disc2.iso
    - -rw-rw-r-- 1 root root 668950528 May 31 09:03 fc2.disc3.iso
    - -rw-rw-r-- 1 root root 203706368 May 31 09:07 fc2.disc4.iso
    - -rw-rw-r-- 1 root root 79511552 May 31 09:09 fc2.rescue.iso

    [charles@moe charles]$ system-config-packages --isodir=/home/fc2_iso
    Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "/usr/share/system-config-packages/MainWindow.py", line 160, in ?
        im = get_method(args)
      File "/usr/share/system-config-packages/config.py", line 57, in get_method
        return method.LoopbackIsoInstallMethod(isodir)
      File "/usr/share/system-config-packages/method.py", line 351, in __init__
        self.mountDisc(1)
      File "/usr/share/system-config-packages/method.py", line 402, in mountDisc
        self.tree + "/" + self.discImages[discNum],
    KeyError: 1

    Same thing happens when I do it from a root shell.
    Any ideas?

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    Charles Howse
    Jackson, TN
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