Mailinglist Archive: zypp-devel (230 mails)

["Francis Giannaros" <francis@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Feb 12, 2008 9:35 AM, Klaus Kaempf <kkaempf@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> * 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.

Yeah, I see this asked quite a lot on IRC. It would be nice if there
was a "download only" option (i.e. download at work, take disk home,
install there).

Kind thoughts,
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Francis Giannaros   http://francis.giannaros.org
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