On Sunday 25 November 2007 06:36:25 Gavin Chester wrote: > On Sun, 2007-11-25 at 00:45 +0100, Carlos E. R. wrote: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > 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 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
