On Sun, Apr 22, 2012 at 11:39 AM, Linda Walsh wrote:

Patrick Shanahan wrote:

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* Linda Walsh [04-20-12 16:48]:

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I was thinking about how to specify a list of packages to download  and wanted to be able to specify just updating/downloading the packages needed for an x86_64 system, without the requirement of downloading the entire x586/x686 package set as well.

Currently, I don't see a way to do this -- since the packages in the i[56]86 dirs needed for x86_64 seem to be mixed in with the i[58]86 distro --

Unless you have changed zypper configuration, it will do the sorting for you, ie: do not specify architecture.

 zypper in --recommends samba-client

will examine your system and only download/install those packages matching your system's architecture and requirements (and package suggestions re: --recommends).

It will dl different packages for x86 and x86_64.

Um...

But I am trying to pre-download packages and then use that dir for a local install dir.

zypper won't work if I don't populate the local install dir properly...

You can try zypper up --download-only It will only fetch the packages but not install them, then you can find the packages at /var/cache/zypp/packages -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org