Re: [kde-linux] Add CDs to Kpackage sources, How-To ???

I had been using YaST to access the SuSE install disks to get
packages. Then I discovered Kpackage, and would like to use my
Debian Woody and Sarge install disks to access those packages.

Is it possible to tell Kpackage to read packages off CDs? If so,
how? (I access the internet through dial-up, and really want to
use those 14 CDs of packages I have from Debian.)

On Sunday 27 August 2006 4:28 pm, Gary L. Greene Jr. wrote:
Unfortunately you're about to cause your self a world of pain by
mixing packages from one distribution of Linux with another.
Unfortunately, in Linux if a package is from one distribution or
another, it is highly advised to use packages only for the
distribution you are on. This is caused by version mismatches of
libraries, locations of tools, and the scripts used to start the
installation/configure it. SuSE is as far from Debian in many ways
as an apple is to an orange. While both are fruit and they both are
sweet, they aren't one and the same.

Thank for the reply Gary. I won't pull compiled packages off the CDs.

But I'd still like to be able to get Kpackage to add CDs to the
sources list so I can pull the source code packages off the Debian
disks.

If I'm pulling the source code package from the CD and then doing a
manual compile under SuSE myself, I don't expect I'll have any
problems.

Regards,
Stephen.
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