Dňa Po 29. Máj 2006 18:15 houghi napísal:

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>
> > then the command line tools.
> >
> > there should be a very precise documentation on how to use
> > all the tools available. much more than what is available now.
>
> Yes. e.g. there used to be installation_sources. That seems to be gone.
> What is the replacement for it? Also other commandline things should be
> better documented. I asume I am not the only one who likes to do things on
> the command line.

In 10.1, you should use 'rug' to add a new service. (Details: If the URL is 
not known to YaST, it will be added automatically when the source metadata 
are parsed for the first time by ZMD.)

>
> > Using "rpm" is already difficult. I have to use it any two
> > month (approx) and each time I have to RTFM at least 1/2hour...
>
> That is a bit over the top. I also use it very seldom. What I use is
> either `rpm -Uvh file.rpm` or `rpm -e program` Very seldom do I need
> anything else. I would not call that difficult.
> Just don't forget to follow by `SuSEconfig`.
>
> I think you are being unfair. On one side you complain about not having
> enough documentation. On the other side you complain that the
> documentation is too much.
> Do what I do. Make a file with small tricks that you sometimes use. and
> have a link to that file. That way the moment you need something you
> forgot, you can go to that file and see the little trick you used in the
> past.
>
> > May I also say that having 20-30Gb dedicated to a local
> > inst-source server will not be a problem in a very near
> > future, given the price fall of Hard drive storage, so a
> > silent, low priority, background daemon to keep such repo
> > uptodate would be a must.
>
> Making that is not that difficult. Just rsync the directory. For
> installation sources, you only need to do it once. You then have
> everything you want. YOU should take care of the daily updates.
>
> The most important thing for me at this moment would be that I can use
> YaST also to download packages I install and that it make an installation
> source I can use.
> This means running createrepo or create_package_descr and do that in such
> a way that it does the signing automagicaly.
>
> The way I do it now is download things to /usr/src/packages/RPMS/*, do a
> createrepo and then use YaST to install it. At least for the stuff that is
> not on any of the installation sources. 

This is work in progress AFAIK.

Stano

-- 
Best regards,

Stanislav Visnovsky
YaST Prague Team Leader

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