Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1750 mails)

[Dave Plater <dave.plater@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Kevin Donnelly wrote:
> On Wednesday 01 October 2008 09:41, Dave Plater wrote:
> > Kevin Donnelly wrote:
> > > Does YaST in 11.0 have an option yet to retain the downloaded packages
> > > in /var/cache instead of deleting them after install?
> > Yast cannot set the keeppackages option zypper does with zypper ar -k. In
> > order to keep downloaded packages I manually edit the .repo files in
> > /etc/zypp/repos.d and change the option keeppackages=0 to keeppackages=1
>
> Thanks for that, Dave.  The problem I see is that you have to remember to do 
> this for each repo you add, and if you forget then you can't transfer a DVD 
> of the packages because the dependencies will be wrong.
>
> LOL - I can't believe a GUI tickbox for this is still missing - people have 
> been asking for it for the past couple of years, and the old YaST had it.  
> Smart still rules, then.
One more thing, if you happen to edit the repository in yast it resets 
keeppackages to 0
Its been asked for at last. https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=402617
Regards
Dave P

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