On Sunday 09 March 2003 10:48 am, Robert L Martin wrote: > In looking at the various ftp sites i see way to much variation on how > the file tree sets up. How does one pull a single set of rpms from > a site without having to walk the entire tree?? (by hand, for an example > the rpms needed to use audacity) > > Also in doing Rsync i would think that if more than a "dozen rpms" are > going to be changed during an update The Drakes should drop a > .FireStorm file into the tree and if an Rsync sees that file present it > should abort with the message "Fire Storm in file tree update aborted" > then you don't waste 3 gigabytes of bandwidth just to do the same again > (and again and again and..). > > > > Please note sometimes one needs rpms to fix a broken install (due to > driver issues or bad kernel rpms or..)
I think that is what urpmi is good at. Set up a cooker source, "urpmi audacity" will fetch and install all rpms that are required. -- Greg
