On 5/4/24 22:37, Andrei Borzenkov wrote:
On 05.05.2024 04:31, Lew Wolfgang wrote:
Using Red Hat's reposync program I don't have to download hundreds of GB of repo every week, and it's trivially easy to set up.
Well, then use it. What is the problem? SUSE is using the same overall repository format.
bor@uefi:~> reposync
The program 'reposync' can be found in the following package: * yum-utils [ path: /usr/bin/reposync, repository: openSUSE-20191030-0 ]
Try installing with: sudo zypper install yum-utils
Yes, it's just odd that SUSE and friends don't natively support what I'd consider to be core functionality. Indeed, I struggled with this for years before discovering the reposync option. I was using rsync to those openSUSE mirrors that supported it, but I had to do it off-site because my customer doesn't allow external rsync connections on port 873. It was a PITA. I really searched for options too, my mistake was I didn't search Red Hat documentation. It was actually a young assistant I hired who was familiar with Red Hat, who asked me, "Why don't you do it this way?" I was hoping that I just missed something and that openSUSE does natively support this functionality. Since it apparently doesn't, perhaps this dialog will help other users who need to maintain local rpm repositories. Regards, Lew