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On Wednesday, 2009-11-11 at 18:56 -0500, Greg Freemyer wrote:
On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 6:34 PM, Carlos E. R. <> wrote:
On Wednesday, 2009-11-11 at 13:08 +0100, Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
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My only remaining question is about the flag to tell zypper to download everything first, then install after all the downloads complete. Or maybe the new flag defaults to this behavior, and not of the behavior before the flag?
I suppose it would be somewhere in /etc/zypp/zypper.conf or /etc/zypp/zypp.conf.
RTFM?
From http://en.opensuse.org/Upgrade/11.2#Command_line === Now execute full distribution update:
zypper dup # Install the packages
If you prefer to download all packages before installing, add a -d flag to the end of the command. After the packages get downloaded, run the command again, this time without -d. ===
It is indeed where I said it was:
] Set commit.downloadMode = DownloadInAdvance in /etc/zypp/zypp.conf so ] that everything is downloaded first, before the packages get installed. ] The download transaction needs a huge amount of space on the /var ] partition to store all the software packages.
http://www.suse.com/relnotes/i386/openSUSE/11.2/RELEASE-NOTES.en.html#07
- -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. T Take note that if one package fails to download then zypper won't install anything and exit silently, until that package requirement has been satisfied, ie. you have refreshed and rerun zypper dup or if the
On 11/12/2009 10:41 PM, Carlos E. R. wrote: package is actually unavailable (I had this problem with a packman package) you have to delete it to get the distribution upgrade to install all the packages. See :- http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=545258 Regards Dave P -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org