Jan Kupec wrote:
Hi David,
David C. Rankin wrote:
Maybe you can help with another problem with the local update setup. The only problem I have is that to access rpms on the local repository I have to use the '-t package' option even if the rpms were originally cached from the openSuSE Update server during an online update.
It's really just more annoying than anything else. I would expect that doing a "zypper up -r localrepo" would return a list of updates that have not yet been applied to the client machine. Instead, you get the "Nothing to do" answer.
If you use -t package against the local repo, then you get all the updates both from the online-update repo as well as all of the packages cached during a regular zypper up -t package update.
Is there any designation of flag the online-update metadata has that I might be missing in creating the repo with 'createrepo -p -d openSUSE_11.0'?
What you get with createrepo from dirs with rpms is just plain packages. The update repositories contain also special metadata called 'Patches'. These live only in the metadata, that's why you don't get them with createrepo. There're located in <repository>/repodata/updateinfo.xml.gz in recent update repos (they used to be in /repodata/patches.xml + patch-*.xml files before 11.0).
My guess is that copying these raw metadata to corresponding dir on the client machines will suffice, they contain all architectures the repo contains.
HTH
BTW (info for those on 11.1) on a 11.1+ system: zypper up == zypper up -t package zypper patch == zypper up -t patch
Thank you Jan, I'll give it a go and report back. I'm all about this local repo stuff, case in point: [06:40 alchemy:/media] # zypper in -r 3111updt qdvdauthor-templates Reading installed packages... The following NEW package is going to be installed: qdvdauthor-templates Overall download size: 78.9 M. After the operation, additional 96.2 M will be used. Continue? [YES/no]: yes Downloading package qdvdauthor-templates-1.0.0-1.pm.0.noarch (1/1), 78.9 M (96.2 M unpacked) Downloading: qdvdauthor-templates-1.0.0-1.pm.0.noarch.rpm [done (2.9 M/s)] ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ What was a 10 *minute* download the first time, turned into a 30 second download the second time (and that's over wireless). I bet I can cut it down to a 9 second download over CAT5 ;-) -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org