Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3625 mails)

[Henne Vogelsang <hvogel@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

On Tuesday, June 24, 2008 at 15:43:40, Mohit Verma wrote:
> CyberOrg wrote:
> > On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 3:14 PM, Mohit Verma <mohit.verma.in@xxxxxxxxx> 
> > wrote:
> >   
> > > i have been using suse for a while but i hadn't been bothered about this
> > > before... can some tell me where do all the rpm files go when i install
> > > files through yast. and is there a way to create a backup for them...?
> > >
> > >     
> >
> > Add a repository with -k option, like this:
> >
> > zypper sa -k http://www.opensuse-education.org/download/repo/1.0/11.0/ edu
> >
> > The rpms would remain in /var/cache/zypp even after installation.
>
> so unless i don't use -k , my rpm packages aren't saved on my computer? is 
> there anyway i can recover the packages i have already installed?

You have the files on disk. So save what is there. If you really need
packages instead of files you can try a tool like rpmrebuild. Its on
11.0

http://packages.opensuse-community.org/index.jsp?searchTerm=rpmrebuild&distro=openSUSE_110

Henne

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