On Saturday 05 April 2008 00:35:09 fifty.63@ladadee.com wrote:

----- "Ben Kevan" wrote:

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You can install yum and use it on openSUSE. I currently do.

Ben, thanks for the rapid response. I must have muddied the waters a little with my question. I was not really asking about the client side of the equation. I am interested in info on setting up a local repository of OpenSUSE updates and such. I am already doing fine exploring the various ways to consume repositories on an OpenSUSE system. I have played around with yum, zypper, and 'yast2 sw_single' (a wrapper for zypper?).

I am looking for a tool or script that can automate the process of pulling down packages from the repositories I use and then generating whatever metadata is required to provide a usable local repository for yast. Apologies if I am still not being clear.

YaST can handle a plain directory of rpms, it doesn't need any metadata, so if that's all you're looking for, wget will work YaST can also work with yum repositories (in fact, that is what standard YaST repos are), so any tools you used to work with will still work You also have a package called createrepo, which contains tools for turning a directory of rpms into a repository Anders -- Madness takes its toll -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

On Friday 04 April 2008 03:35:09 pm fifty.63@ladadee.com wrote:

----- "Ben Kevan" wrote:

...

You can install yum and use it on openSUSE. I currently do.

Ben, thanks for the rapid response. I must have muddied the waters a little with my question. I was not really asking about the client side of the equation. I am interested in info on setting up a local repository of OpenSUSE updates and such. I am already doing fine exploring the various ways to consume repositories on an OpenSUSE system. I have played around with yum, zypper, and 'yast2 sw_single' (a wrapper for zypper?).

I am looking for a tool or script that can automate the process of pulling down packages from the repositories I use and then generating whatever metadata is required to provide a usable local repository for yast. Apologies if I am still not being clear.

djv

mrepo should actually be able to already download suse packages. Try running 8.4svn. I have set it up to donwload for SLES, I am sure it can be easily modified for openSUSE. With that said.. I think I'll give it a go. Ben -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org