Hans Witvliet wrote:
>> The Sunday 2007-12-23 at 10:51 +0200, Dave Plater wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Is there a way of automatically keeping a copy of everything yast
>>> installs from online repositories?
>>>
>
> It's pretty hard (but do-able) to know in advance what the dependancies
> are of what you are going to install...
>
> easiest way to setup you own installation-server with some add-on repo's
> So, your install media, all of the updates, packman, and some from the
> buildserver. (gwdg has it all)
>
> Takes some diskspace and some bandwith and a nightly cronjob, but it
> gets you fast installations and updates.
> Only to be recommended if one has several machines to keep
> up-and-running...
>
> hw
>
Thanks for reply,
I'm a lonely little Linux machine sharing an embedded Linux dsl
router with two nasty vista machines and I have my own local repository
set up. What I would like, when yast downloads the rpm before installing
it, is to have a copy saved in my local repository before yast deletes
the rpm. I cannot afford to mirror the two main repos I use, I live in
South Africa where the local telkom had a monopoly for many years and a
gig of cap costs one fifth of the cost of an 80 gig hard drive.
You have just given another reason why yast should have the option to
keep installed rpm copies. In a small Linux network you need a copy rpm
on hand if a reinstall is needed without eating up your bandwidth. I
just find selecting the package in yast then downloading the packages
shown in installation summary then stopping yast running createrepo
--update then restarting yast and if I missed a file maybe having to
repeat the whole process again, painful. I thought I saw a don't
clear cache option in Kpackage but its not as good as yast its only a
bit easier than cli rpms.
All I want for Christmas is a yast that saves its installed rpm,s or at
least help ( directions to routine that clears cache to save me hours of
looking for it ) to change it myself.
merry Xmas everybody
Dave Plater
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