On Thursday 13 July 2006 03:21, Stephen Boddy wrote:
The point being that I have multiple machines I want to update, so I don't want to waste bandwidth by a) downloading the kde updates repeatedly, or b) replicating the whole folder with updates for packages I haven't installed.
It seems like this would be a sensible addition to SUSE for those of us with multiple machines, (applying to virtual ones too.)
I agree entirely. I think it's weird that something like this, which would be really handy in a small office setup, for instance, is not a YaST module - it's almost as if people are assuming that you will either have a lonely Linux server on you LAN, or an enterprise-level 800-desk setup, but nothing in between. If you are using Smart, one thing you could do is set it not to remove packages after download: smart config --set remove-packages=false and then share that PC's /var/lib/smart/packages over NFS. Then, on the other PCs, symlink their /var/lib/smart/packages dirs to that NFS share. Everything downloaded by any PC will then be in the source PC's /var/lib/smart/packages dir, and any package slated for update on a PC will be fetched from there if it exists, rather than being downloaded. -- Pob hwyl / Best wishes Kevin Donnelly www.kyfieithu.co.uk - KDE yn Gymraeg www.eurfa.org.uk - Geiriadur rhydd i'r Gymraeg www.rhedadur.org.uk - Rhedeg berfau Cymraeg www.cymrux.org.uk - Linux Cymraeg ar un CD -- Check the headers for your unsubscription address For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq@suse.com