Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1750 mails)

[Dave Plater <dave.plater@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Kevin Donnelly wrote:
> On Wednesday 01 October 2008 11:35, Manne Merak wrote:
> > Ye, but Smart still downloads the complete filelist of updates when it
> > changes (which is every 2-3 days these days).
> > Thats 14Meg every couple of days - I dont have unlimited traffic on my
> > DSL so it works out to be an expensive exercise.
>
> True, but with the default YaST behaviour, if you have a LAN, you need to 
> download the same packages on each PC, which is worse.  With Smart, you can 
> download to a shared /var/lib/smart/packages dir.
>
> > ps. the Smart GUI also still doesnt have a tick box for keeping packages.
>
> No, but it has a one-time command:
> smart config --set remove-packages=false
> which is as easy as a tickbox, and doesn't require you to remember to 
> manually 
> edit the file for new repos (and, according to Dave, not edit it in YaST 
> afterwards).
As I said in a later email you can choose the cache directory in 
/etc/zypp/zypp.conf . I have never been able to get
smart to work properly with my local repositories.
Regards
Dave P

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