Ness, Todd wrote: > use rsync to mirror one of the mirrors and then you have everything you > ever wanted or will need. > > On Thu, 2007-11-01 at 14:17 -0400, Richard Creighton wrote: > >> Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) wrote: >> >>> Coach-X wrote: >>> >>> >>>> If I wanted zypper/yast to save the rpm files it downloads when doing an >>>> online update, how would this be done? >>>> >>>> >>> Please see https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=293100 and vote >>> for it. >>> >>> >> Their proposal to use the product creator might be fine ... IF that >> worked, which it doesn't, and even that is 'resolved as later'. A lot >> of people don't want the patches kept, or the rpms either, but we >> *should* have the OPTION to do so. What happens if Novel or openSuSE >> decides to call it quits? If we reinstall on a new machine or after a >> crash, it might be nice if we had our own copy of all of the patches to >> all of the bugs. The one humongous central repository idea is too >> Microsoft for my liking. I at least want the OPTION to keep the >> patches and update rpms. >> I almost missed your answer as you top posted :) I usually just skip to the bottom....
You miss the point Todd, I don't need or want the whole update repository, I only want those items that I need for *my* specific system to be downloaded and saved. It needs to be an option, not imposed upon you or anyone else either to keep or to delete but no one should have to download the whole repo to get one or two update patches or update rpms when they are released. This is the same 'defect' that led to the automatic deletion of working kernels and sources when new and untried (and often broken) replacements were sent out as 'upgrades' leaving some people with no way to boot their systems because the new kernel didn't work on their system and the process of upgrading also destroyed what functioned. At least the OPTION to keep the OLD and the CHANGES should be provided. It should be your OPTION to do it the way it is now or the way it used to be done in earlier versions where you did have more options to save changes and not clobber current configurations or at least keep them as backups readily available. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
