Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (392 mails)

[Christoph Thiel <cthiel@xxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Apr 05, 2007 at 05:45:45PM -0400, Felix Miata wrote:
> On 2007/04/05 17:14 (GMT-0400) Patrick Shanahan apparently typed:
> 
> > and *somehow* the lack of disk space or anticipation of available disk
> > space is "smart"'s fault?
> 
> Yup. It's competition, such as yast & urpmi, are both smart enough to mix
> some installation and rpm file deletion in with the downloading so that disk
> freespace is a virtual non-issue.

I guess you are looking for the "--stepped" mode of smart. (It makes sure to
first download and then instantly install a package, instead of downloading
all packages at once and installing them afterwards.)


Thanks,
Christoph
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Christoph Thiel, Tech. Project Management, Research & Development
SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg)
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