Kevin Donnelly wrote:
On Wednesday 01 October 2008 09:41, Dave Plater wrote:
Kevin Donnelly wrote:
Does YaST in 11.0 have an option yet to retain the downloaded packages in /var/cache instead of deleting them after install?
Yast cannot set the keeppackages option zypper does with zypper ar -k. In order to keep downloaded packages I manually edit the .repo files in /etc/zypp/repos.d and change the option keeppackages=0 to keeppackages=1
Thanks for that, Dave. The problem I see is that you have to remember to do this for each repo you add, and if you forget then you can't transfer a DVD of the packages because the dependencies will be wrong.
LOL - I can't believe a GUI tickbox for this is still missing - people have been asking for it for the past couple of years, and the old YaST had it. Smart still rules, then.
Ye, but Smart still downloads the complete filelist of updates when it changes (which is every 2-3 days these days). Thats 14Meg every couple of days - I dont have unlimited traffic on my DSL so it works out to be an expensive exercise. Im not yet completly sure if the new package manager in 11.0 does not do this - everyone is very happy with its speed, but it seems no one knows it it still downloads the complete update filelists or just diff increments? Manne ps. the Smart GUI also still doesnt have a tick box for keeping packages. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org