On Sunday 25 November 2007 06:36:25 Gavin Chester wrote:
> On Sun, 2007-11-25 at 00:45 +0100, Carlos E. R. wrote:
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> > The Saturday 2007-11-24 at 14:50 -0800, Timothy Cahill wrote:
> > > A fully configured Open-Suse build is several GB in size. I could
> > > download these files manually, but for gosh sakes, why would anyone
> > > think one should re-do manually what Yast is already doing
> > > automatically (dependency resolving and all)? All I ask is that --
> > > please, can there be an OPTION to save downloaded RPMs locally?
> >
> > I'd love to have this option BACK.
> >
> > Yes, I say back, because we had that option in SuSE 8 and 9, before we
> > got zypper and zmd et families. It was removed, and not because it was
> > not wanted, I guess.
>
> You can easily do what you ask if you switch to "smart" for updates
> instead of the standard suse tools under yast. I have invoked the option
> of keeping all my updated or new rpms for about the past 12mths. This
> was in case I ever needed to build a duplicate system with all the
> latest packages or if needing to rebuild a stuffed system from scratch.
> I'm stuck on dialup and the thought of having to download Gbs of files
> to come up to date (from that offered on my install dvd) was too much to
> think about.
>
> Gavin

Can I add the /var/lib/smart/packages on one machine 'A' as a source for 
machine 'B'? If so how do I do it?

Thanks
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