Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2348 mails)

[Anders Johansson <ajh@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Saturday 05 April 2008 00:35:09 fifty.63@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> ----- "Ben Kevan" <ben.kevan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > You can install yum and use it on openSUSE. I currently do.
>
> Ben, thanks for the rapid response. I must have muddied the waters a little
> with my question. I was not really asking about the client side of the
> equation. I am interested in info on setting up a local repository of
> OpenSUSE updates and such. I am already doing fine exploring the various
> ways to consume repositories on an OpenSUSE system. I have played around
> with yum, zypper, and 'yast2 sw_single' (a wrapper for zypper?).
>
> I am looking for a tool or script that can automate the process of pulling
> down packages from the repositories I use and then generating whatever
> metadata is required to provide a usable local repository for yast.
> Apologies if I am still not being clear.

YaST can handle a plain directory of rpms, it doesn't need any metadata, so if 
that's all you're looking for, wget will work

YaST can also work with yum repositories (in fact, that is what standard YaST 
repos are), so any tools you used to work with will still work

You also have a package called createrepo, which contains tools for turning a 
directory of rpms into a repository

Anders
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