Hello,
I'd like to add to this that I just tried to add factory to rug:
rug sa --type=yum http://mirrors.kernel.org/opensuse/distribution/SL-OSS-factory/inst-source/s... factory
The progress bar stopped at 33% - but my harddisk, cpu and ram (512 megs) consumption ran amok - using at a time all my 500 megs of swap - I powered off after 20 minutes as I couldn't get it to stop - not even ctrl+alt+backspace would do it.
Actually, also here it stays at 33% for a long time -- until it has processed/downloaded all meta data (I have 1 GB RAM, which is almost completely used by zmd/rug and friends.).
The urls for yast and rug seem to be different as rug needs the last /suse - I wonder if this has any relevance.
Without /suse is the Yast package manager format (I think the format it is the same as with older SUSEs), with /suse it is the YUM format. I think Yast can also read Yum. I don't know whether zmd/rug can process the YaST package format... (I actually lost track at some point after 10.0beta.) Tobias