Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (1233 mails)

[Josef Reidinger <jreidinger@xxxxxxx>]

Oddball wrote:
> Josef Reidinger schreef:
> > Lukas Ocilka wrote:
> >   
> > > Oddball napsal(a):
> > >     
> > > > Oddball schreef:
> > > >       
> > > > > Hi,
> > > > >
> > > > > 454.53 MB to go: 166pkgs, the Yast section: packages not found.
> > > > > every pkg fails, refreshing does nor help.
> > > > > ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/opensuse/factory/repo/oss
> > > > >
> > > > > File'./suse/x86_64/yast2-vm-2.16.7-1.11.x86_64.rpm' not found on medium
> > > > > 'ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/opensuse/factory/repo/oss'
> > > > >         
> > > Well, yes, that's known problem we face all the time. Factory can change
> > > while you're updating to the snapshot. YaST/Zypper will offer to
> > > download all packages first before installing them but this doesn't work
> > > yet.
> > >
> > > Bye
> > > Lukas
> > >     
> Yep, i know, but that doesn't make it less painfull....
>
> > Workaround by zypper can be found in this blog post (little advertise :)
> > -
> > http://lizards.opensuse.org/2008/10/30/how-survive-zypper-dup-on-system-with-bad-internet-connection/
> >   
> zypper mr –keep-packages –remote , does this mean that the repo-'state'
> itself is cached on the repo?
>
> because this would save a lot of trouble..

Storing repo state is useless if that file is not on server, so you
can't download it.  But if you download it and doesn't refresh it (also
no autorefresh) install in same state as it saves it packages.
JR
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