On Fri, 2003-06-27 at 18:53, John Haywood wrote: > On Sat, 28 Jun 2003 10:52 am, Praedor Atrebates wrote: > > > > At home I am stuck forevermore with a godawful slow dialup connection. As > > a result, I rarely do a MandrakeUpdate from home - takes way too long with > > anything over a several megs of files. My laptop gets access to a fast > > connection at my university so it gets updated often...but such a waste. > > My laptop is a pathetic old celery 366 stinkpad. > > It would be way nice if I could do a MandrakeUpdate at work/school with > > my laptop and select to save the downloaded rpms so I could go home, > > connect up to my desktop, and upgrade it too. MandrakeUpdate deletes all > > the rpms it downloads, and good thing else you would begin to seriously > > consume hdd space. What I would like is an option to save the rpm > > downloaded by MandrakeUpdate...perhaps to another directory or simply leave > > them in their cache directory until I elect to dump them. Make > > MandrakeUpdate default behavior to delete the downloads but give an option > > to save them. > > it�s odd that urpmi --auto-select --noclean will do exactly this, but the gui > front end doesn�t include this option, I agree
There should be something you can add to /etc/urpmi/urpmi.cfg .... but not sure yet what it is. However I thinks if you change them by adding after the last line of each "udpate source" listed noclean It will happen. James
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