On Friday 20 July 2007 01:57:13 pm Klaus Kaempf wrote: > For 'zypper sa http://foo bar', why do user NOT want an immediate metadata > download ? > > Lets see > - the system is currently offline > - the user is adding lots of repos in a batch > - the user just wants to prep the system without using the repo immediately > What else ? > > Imho, adding a repo (via zypper or yast) should at least check for > reachability of the repo and give immediate feedback. (one might have > mistyped the url, access an incompatible architecture, etc.)
Checking for reachability needs network access, which is you did not want above. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
