Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1502 mails)

[Jan Kupec <jkupec@xxxxxxx>]

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Hi David,

David C. Rankin wrote:
>       Maybe you can help with another problem with the local update setup. 
> The only
> problem I have is that to access rpms on the local repository I have to use 
> the
> '-t package' option even if the rpms were originally cached from the openSuSE
> Update server during an online update.
>
>       It's really just more annoying than anything else. I would expect that 
> doing a
> "zypper up -r localrepo" would return a list of updates that have not yet been
> applied to the client machine. Instead, you get the "Nothing to do" answer.
>
>       If you use -t package against the local repo, then you get all the 
> updates
> both from the online-update repo as well as all of the packages cached during 
> a
> regular zypper up -t package update.
>
>       Is there any designation of flag the online-update metadata has that I 
> might
> be missing in creating the repo with 'createrepo -p -d openSUSE_11.0'?

What you get with createrepo from dirs with rpms is just plain packages.
The update repositories contain also special metadata called 'Patches'.
These live only in the metadata, that's why you don't get them with
createrepo. There're located in <repository>/repodata/updateinfo.xml.gz
in recent update repos (they used to be in /repodata/patches.xml +
patch-*.xml files before 11.0).

My guess is that copying these raw metadata to corresponding dir on the
client machines will suffice, they contain all architectures the repo
contains.

HTH

BTW (info for those on 11.1) on a 11.1+ system:
zypper up    == zypper up -t package
zypper patch == zypper up -t patch

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cheers,
jano


 Ján Kupec
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