Mailinglist Archive: zypp-devel (230 mails)

[Klaus Kaempf <kkaempf@xxxxxxx>]

* Michael Matz <matz@xxxxxxx> [Feb 12. 2008 10:28]:
> Hi,
>
> On Tue, 12 Feb 2008, Klaus Kaempf wrote:
>
> > * Michael Matz <matz@xxxxxxx> [Feb 12. 2008 09:51]:
> > > I hope that neither CD nor NFS protocol are really downloaded.  Both are 
> > > local protocols.
> >
> > Well, people have requested just this in the past. It should be
> > configurable.
>
> Unless this can be explained in more words than "it was requested" I stand 
> by my assessment of that being nonsensical.

The use case is "have all relevant packages in one directory so they
can be copied to an usb-stick or cdrom and distributed".

One doesn't always have the right CD at hand (or is connected to the
right network with NFS access) when trying to install a specific set
of packages (installed before to a 'reference' system) on another
computer.


Klaus
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