On Mon, May 29, 2006 at 11:20:21PM +0200, jdd wrote:
but if you want, we can forget the actual 10.1 tests and look only at what we need as a package manager...
Thank you. bug solving belongs in another thread. <snip stuff I agree with>
I think that in most situations the version info can be retrieved lately, in the background. In most cases, peoples needs only the current version.
What do you mean by 'in the background'?
we need some kind of repository management. It's possible to have the same package on different repositories and we may need to use an older package for whatever reason. This is an exception from the previous stated system (ignoring the version), seldom used and so in cases we can afford to wait a little...
How I see this happening is by saving what you download, not so much tghings you install from the CD or DVD, and save that in /usr/src/packages/RPMS/* for the full RPMs and wherever for the updates. For the RPMs you either need to run createrepo or create_package_descr. Perhaps createrepo might be easier, because smart and the others can use it as well. This means signing the packages and adding the directories to the apropriate places. Perhaps SuSEconfig can include such a thing. -- houghi http://houghi.org http://www.plainfaqs.org/linux/ http://www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html
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