Dňa Wednesday 26 September 2007 12:06:49 Miquel A. Noguera ste napísal:
El Miércoles, 26 de Septiembre de 2007 10:36:27 Stanislav Visnovsky escribió:
In 10,3 zypper is so good that we will only need apt/smart in few occasions, and probably in 11.0 we will be able to forget them definitively
:-)
In which occasions?
occasion 1) ===========
We need to download -only download- a list of packages and keep it for any posterior use, for example:
- download updates every night to update our local update server - make a dvd update for pc's with no internet acces (great!)
To do so, first, I get a list with all necessary rpm's in every box I maintain:
rpm -qa --queryformat "%{name} \n" | grep -v gpg-pubkey | sort > pc_01.list
with those lists, every night my server's cron downloads all updates that afect me:
apt-get update apt-get reinstall -dy $(cat pc_01.list pc_02.list ... pc_NN.list)
and it updates my local repo too:
rm /srv/ftp/repo/RPMS.last/* cp /var/cache/apt/*.rpm /srv/ftp/repo/RPMS.last genbasedir /srv/ftp/repo/
When I need, I can:
- Test new updates in a vmware machine "without wait for download" (*) - Apply it fastly (*) to my 5 local pc's, if everthing is ok. - I can burn a dvd to update my home's pc, where I have no internet conetion. - Perform fastly a new updated fresh install - Retain versions of packages to prevent broken updrades.
(*) 11Mb/s instead 106Kb/s means about 100 times faster.
So, you basically create your own mirror using download-only functionality. Correct? If so, do you need just the download-only, or also some other functionality? Stano --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org