On Tue, 2007-12-25 at 10:29 +0200, Dave Plater wrote: > > Are you the same poster as several weeks ago? This very same topic > came > > up a few weeks ago and elicited quite a few replies. My suggestion > (that > > didn't suit the original poster) was to adopt the superior package > > manager "smart". I have used it for more than a year and have saved > all > > my upgrade downloads in a local cache with no effort once set. > > > > Gavin > > > > > > nope it wasn't me, I only joined a few days ago. I saw smart mentioned > in another thread and installed and tried to enter my local repository > but it refused to accept it.
Pity you had a bad experience - imho 'smart' leaves other package managers for dead. I used yum in fedora in the past, but found it sucked big time in many show-stopping ways over the couple of years I persisted. Then I discovered yast after switching to opensuse with V.10.1, but there were all those well known problems with it back then (forums were full of help requests and work-arounds). Smart came up trumps for me after initial cofig. and has just got better. Don't know how you tried to set it up ... but, if you had populated your local cache under /var/lib/smart/cache/packages (and so on) with your own downloaded packages (after initial setup) it should have "just worked" to get your rpms off the local disk. Don't think you have to create a local repository unless you're serving up to a clutch of PCs on a LAN/WAN. Gavin -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
