On Sunday 25 November 2007 06:36:25 Gavin Chester wrote:
On Sun, 2007-11-25 at 00:45 +0100, Carlos E. R. wrote:
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The Saturday 2007-11-24 at 14:50 -0800, Timothy Cahill wrote:
A fully configured Open-Suse build is several GB in size. I could download these files manually, but for gosh sakes, why would anyone think one should re-do manually what Yast is already doing automatically (dependency resolving and all)? All I ask is that -- please, can there be an OPTION to save downloaded RPMs locally?
I'd love to have this option BACK.
Yes, I say back, because we had that option in SuSE 8 and 9, before we got zypper and zmd et families. It was removed, and not because it was not wanted, I guess.
You can easily do what you ask if you switch to "smart" for updates instead of the standard suse tools under yast. I have invoked the option of keeping all my updated or new rpms for about the past 12mths. This was in case I ever needed to build a duplicate system with all the latest packages or if needing to rebuild a stuffed system from scratch. I'm stuck on dialup and the thought of having to download Gbs of files to come up to date (from that offered on my install dvd) was too much to think about.
Gavin
Can I add the /var/lib/smart/packages on one machine 'A' as a source for machine 'B'? If so how do I do it? Thanks -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org