[issue182] opensuse 10.1, no devel packages?

[Basil Chupin]

Christoph Thiel wrote:
> On Wed, 19 Jul 2006, Basil Chupin wrote:
> 
>>>> New submission from Seth Galitzer <sgsax at ksu.edu>:
>>>>
>>>> Maybe this is just a configuration issue, but when I search for 
>>>> packages, no devel packages are returned in the results.  I'm using 
>>>> version 0.41 as provided by the standard opensuse distribution.
>>> Did you add any channels to your smart configuration? By default there 
>>> won't be any channels, so smart will only find installed packages.
>>>
>>> Please run:
>>>
>>>   smart channel --add suse101 name="SUSE Linux 10.1" type=rpm-md \
>>>   baseurl=http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.1/inst-source/suse/
>> Christoph, I've looked in smart's home site for this but cannot find it 
>> so could you please tell me how you arrived at the "type=rpm-md" above? 
>> That is, how does one determine what the TYPE is for any channel?
> 
> Well, by looking at the channels ;) If there is a repodata dir inside, 
> it's a rpm-md channel (like ...inst-source/suse/). If you like the yast2 
> channel better, just strip of the suse/ of the URL I pointed you to.
> 
> 
>> I want to add 
>> http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-OSS-factory/inst-source/suse/ 
>> and don't know if the type is yast2 or rpm-md or even something else.
> 
> http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-OSS-factory/inst-source/suse/ 
> is a rpm-md channel,
> http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-OSS-factory/inst-source/
> is a yast channel.

Thank you. I always knew that "suse" made a difference :-) .

Cheers.


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