Hello, * gigih aji ibrahim <bungcip@gmail.com> [2011-04-05 11:55]:

I am gigih aji ibrahim from University of Indonesia, I am interested for applying OpenSUSE GSoC project. My idea is to create offline package management for OpenSUSE. Currently, when your computer is not connected to network, installing and updating a package is difficult process. As example, I want to upgrade my firefox to version 4 in openSUSE 11.4, I usually go to http://software.opensuse.org/114/en, type 'Firefox', and get the .rpm file. However, when I run 'sudo rpm -Uvh' on my computer, the process stopped and give error that you need a new mozilla-xulrunner20. Then, the next day, I download mozilla-xulrunner20. Now, the error is little different, it says I need a new mozilla-js20. I do the same routine again to fulfill all dependencies for new Firefox. I spend 4 days just to install new Firefox. My friend that use ubuntu is having more easy process than mine. He just use offline package management called keryx (http://keryxproject.org/) to update his computer. Unfortunately, keryx only support distribution that use apt/deb.

My idea is to extend keryx to implement zypper/rpm support.

What yours opinion about this idea?

I like the idea of easier offline patching and package installation, but how about integrating with the existing native package management tools rather than introducing a new third-party application for it? I think Zypper/YaST could probably easily be extended to output a list of URLs or a shellscript in order to allow one to easily download all required files on another computer. E.g. Ubuntu/Debian's Synaptics also natively offers that functionality, see https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Synaptic/PackageDownloadScript Salam, -- Guido Berhoerster -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org