Kevin Donnelly wrote:
On Wednesday 01 October 2008 11:35, Manne Merak wrote:
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.
True, but with the default YaST behaviour, if you have a LAN, you need to download the same packages on each PC, which is worse. With Smart, you can download to a shared /var/lib/smart/packages dir.
ps. the Smart GUI also still doesnt have a tick box for keeping packages.
No, but it has a one-time command: smart config --set remove-packages=false which is as easy as a tickbox, and doesn't require you to remember to manually edit the file for new repos (and, according to Dave, not edit it in YaST afterwards).
As I said in a later email you can choose the cache directory in /etc/zypp/zypp.conf . I have never been able to get smart to work properly with my local repositories. Regards Dave P -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org