Add CDs to Kpackage sources, How-To ???

On Sunday 27 August 2006 17:19, The Other wrote:
> Aug 27, 2006
>
> Hello All,
>
> I'm using Kpackage 3.4.2 level "b" and
SuSE 10.0.
>
> I had been using YaST to access the SuSE install disks
to get
> packages.  Then I discovered Kpackage, and would like
to use my
> Debian Woody and Sarge install disks to access those
packages.
>
> How do I do it?
>
> Using my /etc/apt/sources.list from Debian was not read
properly by
> Kpackage and resulted in errors.
>
> Is it possible to tell Kpackage to read packages off
CDs?  If so, how?
> (I access the internet through dial-up, and really want
to use those
> 14 CDs of packages I have from Debian.)
>
> Thanks All,
> Stephen.
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Unfortunately you're about to cause your self a world of
pain by mixing 
packages from one distribution of Linux with another.
Unfortunately, in Linux 
if a package is from one distribution or another, it is
highly advised to use 
packages only for the distribution you are on. This is
caused by version 
mismatches of libraries, locations of tools, and the scripts
used to start 
the installation/configure it. SuSE is as far from Debian in
many ways as an 
apple is to an orange. While both are fruit and they both
are sweet, they 
aren't one and the same.
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> > I had been using YaST to access the SuSE install
disks to get
> > packages.  Then I discovered Kpackage, and would
like to use my
> > Debian Woody and Sarge install disks to access
those packages.

> > Is it possible to tell Kpackage to read packages
off CDs?  If so,
> > how? (I access the internet through dial-up, and
really want to
> > use those 14 CDs of packages I have from Debian.)

On Sunday 27 August 2006 4:28 pm, Gary L. Greene Jr. wrote:
> Unfortunately you're about to cause your self a world
of pain by
> mixing packages from one distribution of Linux with
another.
> Unfortunately, in Linux if a package is from one
distribution or
> another, it is highly advised to use packages only for
the
> distribution you are on. This is caused by version
mismatches of
> libraries, locations of tools, and the scripts used to
start the
> installation/configure it. SuSE is as far from Debian
in many ways
> as an apple is to an orange. While both are fruit and
they both are
> sweet, they aren't one and the same.

Thank for the reply Gary.  I won't pull compiled packages
off the CDs.

But I'd still like to be able to get Kpackage to add CDs to
the 
sources list so I can pull the source code packages off the
Debian 
disks.

If I'm pulling the source code package from the CD and then
doing a 
manual compile under SuSE myself, I don't expect I'll have
any 
problems.

Regards,
Stephen.
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