houghi schrieb:
On Sat, May 27, 2006 at 06:58:09PM +0200, Thomas Meindl wrote:
Maybe I missed a point till now, but can any of these package managers store the downloaded packages locally? E.g. Yast Online Update was able to do this till SUSE 10.0 and it was easy to create a personalized patch CD. It would save bandwidth an time (and lots of my nerves) if it was possible to store the packages and repository data on my HD. Can anybody give me a hint if it is possible?
This would also be nice not only for updates, but RPM's in general. e.g. I can download MPlayer and all that is needed into /usr/src/packages/RPMS/* and can use that as a base for other machines (or whatever)
Yes, that's exactly my intention. So far I used wget or rsync to keep a local Yast repository up-to-date, but with this method I also get a lot of unneeded packages. Therefore smart seems a good way to prevent this - and can also save me a lot of work and troubles (which is very nice indeed ;-) ). I also hope that SUSE implements such a function into the zen-updater and its front-end. An easy-to-use direct accessible 'use this local data' dialogue could be a very nice feature. Btw. many thanks to all for the quick and very helpful replies. I'm going to use smart - it looks very promising and seems to fit my purpose very well. Kind regards, tOM (who really hates the caps-lock key ;-) )