> > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 4 > Date: Mon, 31 May 2004 09:23:37 -0500 > From: Charles Howse <chowse@xxxxxxxxxxx> > Subject: Re: FC-2 Add/Remove Applications rant ... > To: fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > Message-ID: <200405310923.41941.chowse@xxxxxxxxxxx> > Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > 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 > > . . . . Python traceback removed > Same thing happens when I do it from a root shell. > Any ideas? > > - -- > Charles Howse > Jackson, TN > Registered Linux User # 347576 (http://counter.li.org) > GnuPG ID - 1F5130A8 It looks like you're trying to read a directory full of ISO CD-ROM images instead of a directory of RPM packages. Either mount these images via a loopback device, so you can see the actual contents of the ISO's, or burn them to CD and copy the resulting RPM's back to disk. Erik
