Oops, forgot to send to the list... --- Sam <ss99hi@yahoo.com> wrote:

Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2006 15:57:40 -0700 (PDT) From: Sam <ss99hi@yahoo.com> Subject: Re: [opensuse] Yast2: creating local dir installation source To: Andreas Hanke <andreas.hanke@gmx-topmail.de>

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'Unable to create installation source from URL 'dir:///tmp/mysource'.'

What is in that directory? Is it a directory with just RPMs in it or is it a real repository with a "repodata" directory or a "content" file?

Neither - it's an empty directory.

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Plain directories with RPMs in it are currently not supported, but you can use the "createrepo" utility to make a real repository of them.

Ok, here's what I'm looking for. If you can point me to a FAQ that explains how to do this, that'd be great...

My connection isn't super fast and neither is my machine. Everytime I go into Yast online updates (or change install source) it takes forever to show me a list of pkgs or the next screen. It's just too painful to wait ~20 mins just for Yast to give me a list of packages *every* time I go into it.

What's going on? I haven't figured it out yet, but Yast seems to be creating /var/adm/mount/AP_0x00000001 directories during that 20 mins. But they are deleted/unmounted when I go back to online update, so those dir(s) have to be recreated everytime.

The /var/adm/mount dirs are eerily similar to the ones in /var/lib/zypp/cache/Source.A2QBo0/repodata. But I haven't figured out the correlation between the two. I've only had 10.1 installed for a few days.

What I was hoping to do was split the updating task: a) keep the metadata local so I can easily browse updates, etc. and b) when I *decide* to update a package, then Yast can fetch the RPMs over the network.

Part a) would be updated via cron at night thus keeping me informed.

That's where I had the "bright" idea to create a local repository and my initial question. Basically a mirror of inst-source but w/o the RPMS.

Is this idea way off base?

BTW, I don't have 'createrepo' on my system.

Thanks, Sam

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