Keith Powell wrote: > On Thursday 12 January 2006 5:43 pm, Pavel Rusyaev wrote: > >>On 1/12/06, Keith Powell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>>When I have done a large URPMI download of stuff, I would like to >>>keep the downloaded RPMs on my hard drive until I have burned >>>them onto a CD-RW. Then I would like to delete them from the >>>drive. >>> >>>Is there a way of doing this? I can't find any way of preventing >>>them being automatically deleted from /var/cache/urpmi >>>immediately after they are installed. >> >>urpmi --noclean > > > Thanks for your reply, Pavel, but I don't think that urpmi --noclean > will help. > > What I would want to do is, after a new 2006 installation, to install > the security updates and bug fixes I need, using the > "configuration->packaging->update" GUI and then install perhaps > twenty or more other packages from the various repositories, using > the "install" GUI. To have to enter some 40 package names into the > command line would not be very satisfactory. Unless I am missing > something obvious! > > With Synaptic, one can set it not to delete the files in its temporary > cache. This is what I am looking for in 2006. I know that > apt/synaptic can be used in Mandriva, but I don't want to change from > using the graphical front end of urpmi.
Kieth, The --noclean option _is_ the one you want. It will cause urpmi to leave the files in /var/cache/urpmi/... John ____________________________________________________ Want to buy your Pack or Services from Mandriva? Go to http://store.mandriva.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrivaclub.com ____________________________________________________
