Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (295 mails)

["M9." <monkey9@xxxxxx>]

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Rajko M. schreef:
> On Sunday 09 December 2007 07:59:30 am M9. wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Is there a reason that a /home/dir can not be added to the install sources?
> > Than there should be a workaround, which is:?
>
> I'm a bit late with answer. It was written an hour ago, before lunch, but it 
> adds more info, so here it is:  
>
> /home/RPM/
> can be added, but it has to contain metadata about packages. 
> The way I use is to run program 'createrepo' in that directory which will 
> create subdirectory 'repodata' and than add /home/RPM/ to package sources. 
>
> With this procedure YaST etc, will complain that packages are not signed, but 
> you can tell to use them anyway. 
>
> Second deficiency of this method is that you have to run 'createrepo' on 
> every 
> change otherwise YaST or 'zypper refresh' will not find any changes you made, 
> ie. will not find new packages or complain about missing packages. 

Aha.
I presume the 2th defciency will be  corrected?
Not that it matters to me to do things more than nessesary, but just to
know that progression will happen. ;-)

We all know that it is very inconvenient not being able to test pkgs,
other than those in the original repos.
I thank you for this info!

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Have a nice day,

M9.               Now, is the only time that exists.



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