Josef Reidinger wrote:
During testing I find way, how separate download and install of packages. It is quite easy with zypper.
1) enable keeping package for repository (zypper mr -k repo) 2) run zypper in -D (dry run, only test install) 3) disconnect from internet (rcnetwork stop) 4) rerun zypper in without -D and it works
Possibly problems 1) metadata must be valid and autorefresh disabled 2) packages rpm is kept after install (delete after successful install can be useful)
Nice idea, but it doesn't fulfill the use-case: Users want libzypp to install packages while another ones are being downloaded. This can be solved by two threads - one for downloading packages and another one for installing them. And it must be solved in libzypp, not only in zypper, yast2-qt-pkg, yast2-ncurses-pkg ... Using zypper is a nice cheating you might want to post on openSUSE-FACTORY or blog about it :) ;) We actually want this feature (and not via 'keep-packages' because of limited resources during installation) for all user front-ends. Bye Lukas