Re: A rambling discourse on the last hurdle.
From: nick (n_at_csdfdasdsfsdsdfsd.com)
Date: 03/04/04
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Date: Thu, 04 Mar 2004 06:05:41 GMT
On Thu, 04 Mar 2004 14:45:58 +1000, Harry Phillips wrote:
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> If you use Mandrake you can easily solve the dependency hell. Keep the iso
> files that you downloaded (or create them from your boxed version). Mount
> the ISO's like I do in /mnt/images/cd1 etc. Configure urpmi to look at
> those mount points. Use urpmi to install anything you desire, everything
> will be worked out for you and it won't ask for the CD's.
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> If you have workstations you can do the same thing, just export the
> mounted ISO image dir on the server and NFS mount it on the workstation.
> Go through the same urpmi configuration on the workstation.
This won't always work for Mandrake, there are plenty of apps out there
for which there is not a rpm package, just source that needs to be
compiled, you can easily run into dependency problems in this case.
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