Mailinglist Archive: zypp-devel (83 mails)

[Stephan Kulow <coolo@xxxxxxx>]

Am Freitag 06 Juni 2008 schrieb Lukas Ocilka:
> Josef Reidinger wrote:
> > During testing I find way, how separate download and install of packages.
> > It is quite easy with zypper.
> >
> > 1) enable keeping package for repository (zypper mr -k repo)
> > 2) run zypper in -D (dry run, only test install)
> > 3) disconnect from internet (rcnetwork stop)
> > 4) rerun zypper in without -D and it works
> >
> > Possibly problems
> > 1) metadata must be valid and autorefresh disabled
> > 2) packages rpm is kept after install (delete after successful install
> > can be useful)
>
> Nice idea, but it doesn't fulfill the use-case:

You confuse use-cases. Other people want zypper to behave like smart:
download all packages and then install in one transaction. Josef's hack
only does the first part :)

Greetings, Stephan

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