- Working with removable media
Smart Package Manager has builtin support for removable media (CDROMs, DVDs, etc) in most of the supported channel types. Smart currently offers the following features regarding removable media:
- Mountpoint autodetection
- Support for multiple simultaneous media drives
- Media may be inserted in any order
- Installed system will maintain correct relations between media changes
- Remote removable media support using any of the supported schemes (ftp, http, scp, etc)
Local removable media
Local removable media are CDROMs, DVDs, etc. In most Linux distributions you will typically find your removable media under /mnt. In SUSE, however, it's under /media. Directories that contain media (/mnt or /media) are actually links that come from /dev and must be registered in /etc/fstab or [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sysfs sysfs], and then sysfs must be in /etc/fstab. Please check your distributions documentation for specific information.
Using multiple media
With smart, you can have more than one type of media. You can have local removable media (CD-ROM/DVD-ROM) and ftp/http source, as well as local media (some directory on your hard drive), or any of the other types of media covered in this howto.
Remote removable media
Remote removable media, is media such as DVD-ROM's or CD-ROM's that are on some url (example: some.host.com). Smart see's this primarily as a URL, but recognizes that it is removable and will ask to change the media when required.
Example:
smart install http://my-desktop.example.com/media/cdrom
smart upgrade http://my-desktop.example.com/media/cdrom
- Downloading at work to upgrade at home Scripts to Convert Sources
- NOTE: These scripts are experimental and are not supported by the smart development team. Use at your own risk.