Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2702 mails)

[rclark@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Ralph Clark)]

"S.Toms" wrote:

> Ralph Clark wrote:
> >
> > Hubert,
> >
> > Please pass on my thanks. It is certainly easier to see what needs to
> > be downloaded, but I still can't figure out a way to get all the latest
> > KDE rpms from there in one shot. I don't use YaST-over-ftp for this
> > because I like to write the rpms to tape after I've installed them and I
> > don't know where YaST puts them.
>
>   During an ftp update, the files are copied to the system, installed
> then deleted. But if as you say you want ALL of them so that you can
> later transfer them to a tape, you would have to ftp to the rpm location
> and mget *.rpm
>
> > Plus, if the link fails during the update, YaST could leave me with a
> > partly-updated system. So I like to download them first. Has anybody
>
>   If you do do a ftp install and it does goe belly up, check within the
> following location for the bad package
>    /var/tmp/209.81.41.5/pub/suse/i386/6.1/suse/kde
>
> then restart the upgrade, it will then continue from where it left off
> last. In my opinon, the ftp install is rather flawless and I use it
> allthe time.
>
> > else worked out the easiest way to download all the latest rpms without
> > doing lots of manual selection? Any real solution should work without
> > knowing precisely what subdirectories are present - I note a new
> > subdirectory was added in the last couple of days.
>
>   again, to get all of them you would have to ftp to the server and do
> an mget from within the package directory you intend to download.

I think you miss my point, partly. With this method, one still has to know the
locations of all the directories where the rpms are stored. This in fact varies
over time. If the directories on the suse ftp server were mountable via nfs (as
some are - have a look in your /etc/auto.misc for an example) then one could
write a script to sniff out the rpm locations. But I don't know of any way to
make the process automatic over plain ftp :o(


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