Re: Adding Software Development packages to a box.

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On Tue, 1 Oct 2002, Ed Wilts wrote:

> On Tue, Oct 01, 2002 at 06:35:31PM +0100, Mr. Adam ALLEN wrote:
> > 
> > I'll take apart the comps.xml file download the packages and go through
> > installing them manually.
> 
> You might be able to do some short-cutting here.  Pick a higher-level package 
> with a whole slew of dependencies and use up2date.  up2date will grab whatever
> else it needs.  This is one case where starting from the top and working
> your way down is easier than starting from the bottom.

Actually.. here's a poor man's metapackage downloader for you:
Check out what's available with './comps-req.py -l' and the you could do 
up2date `./comps-req.py development-tools developments-libs` which should
install the basic development tools for you.

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	- Panu -

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