Mailinglist Archive: zypp-devel (149 mails)

[Duncan Mac-Vicar Prett <dmacvicar@xxxxxxx>]

Axel C. Frinke wrote:
> Hello,
>
> since I still connect to the internet by a 56K modem, I developed my
> own way to perform online updates: I have the openSuSE patches locally 
> stored on my hard disk, and from time to time I connect with rsync to
>   
Define patches here, you are talking about patches.xml metadata right?

> an openSuSE mirror (using option --dry-run) to generate a list of files 
> to retrieve by chance. Once I have fast access (in the CIP pool of the
> university or at friends), I download these files onto a USB flashdisk
> (using command wget --mirror -i download.lst) and store them later on
> my hard disk.
> So far, so good. However, in order to save disk space, I prefer to 
> retrieve delta patches. And here comes my problem: regardless of the
> value of 'download.use_deltarpm' in file /etc/zypp/zypp.conf, libzypp
> always wants to retrieve 'full' patch rpms rather than delta rpms.
> Actually, I go for that. Until now I helped myself from that situation
> by using vsftpd, so I made yast2 and zypper believe it would download 
> from a remote ftp server, but in any case I would prefer a way to apply
> delta rpms even if the source is a local directory.
>   
I suspect you are downloading plain deltarpms without deltarpm metadata. 
Can you paste the tree of the repository (local) and the value in 
repos.d how is was added to libzypp?

Duncan

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