Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1750 mails)

[Kevin Donnelly <kevin@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wednesday 01 October 2008 11:35, Manne Merak wrote:
> Ye, but Smart still downloads the complete filelist of updates when it
> changes (which is every 2-3 days these days).
> Thats 14Meg every couple of days - I dont have unlimited traffic on my
> DSL so it works out to be an expensive exercise.

True, but with the default YaST behaviour, if you have a LAN, you need to 
download the same packages on each PC, which is worse.  With Smart, you can 
download to a shared /var/lib/smart/packages dir.

> ps. the Smart GUI also still doesnt have a tick box for keeping packages.

No, but it has a one-time command:
smart config --set remove-packages=false
which is as easy as a tickbox, and doesn't require you to remember to manually 
edit the file for new repos (and, according to Dave, not edit it in YaST 
afterwards).

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Kevin Donnelly

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