Rodney Baker wrote:
> On Monday 24 December 2007 17:09:31 Dave Plater wrote:
>
>> Carlos E. R. 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?
>>>>
>>> AFAIK, no.
>>>
>>> Perhaps an ftp proxy cache :-?
>>>
>>> -- Cheers,
>>> Carlos E. R.
>>>
>> Yast downloads rpm to its cache (I found it once ) installs and then
>> deletes the damn thing, which might have been say open office devel at
>> 227Mb.
>> I have downloaded the sources and maybe if someone can point me to the
>> name of the point of deletion routine I can change that. In fact I think
>> it might make a valuable addition to yast.
>>
>
> Yum already does this - it is a config option to keep rpms or delete them
> after installation (with yum, I mean, not Yast). It has command line options
> to clean up the headers, downloaded rpms or everything once they are no
> longer needed.
>
> Actually, isn't Yast basically a back-end for zypper? Or am I confused about
> that? Maybe this is actually a function that belongs in zypper rather than
> Yast.
>
> Regards,
> Rodney.
>
>
Thanks I'm getting closer bit by bit. I had a conflict with yum before I
did my last new install, so I ignored it but I'll try it again but I'd
rather use yast I've grown attached to it since my first 7.4
installation. I had 9.1 before 10.3 by the way.
merry christmas
Dave
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