Mailinglist Archive: zypp-devel (83 mails)

[Josef Reidinger <jreidinger@xxxxxxx>]

Lukas Ocilka wrote:
> Stephan Kulow wrote:
> > 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 :)
>
> OK, I was actually writing about the use-case from FATE and bugzilla and 
> mailing-lists where users want exactly this ;)
>
> Yes, for zypper, this might work ... but does it make sense to implement 
> code that couldn't be reused? In the times of libzypp :)?
>
> L.

It can be reused, it is dry run policy in commit in libzypp. Only 
keepPackages must be allowed to don't delete downloaded files after fake 
install.

Pepa
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