On January 9, 2008, Dave Plater wrote: > Rajko M. wrote: > > On Tuesday 08 January 2008 02:33:39 pm Timothy Cahill wrote: > >> installed from the live version. One annoyance is that I cannot see rpm > >> package descriptions for most of the rpms that came with the DVD. When I > >> browse the DVD using Konqueror, I can see that the descriptions are > >> there, but in YAST2 the description tab is blank of all information
> I used to have that problem when I had an rpm only directory for my > local repository (still wishing for a yast that saves rpms ) . It came > right when I used createrepo to index the repository. The descriptions > you see are contained in the rpm itself and createrepo places them in a > gz compressed xml file in the repository. This is what takes a lot of > time to download when a large repository refreshes. Following your suggestion, I'm considering copying the DVD to harddisk, then running createrepo against the HD version. Too bad the live DVD ships with this problem. Doubly unfortunate that the SuSE team's policy is to leave flawed/broken distributions as is. It seems that this could be an easy thing to fix as a 10.3.01 release. While they were at it they could fix the broken link in YAST2's add community repositories application. > KPackage, kde's package manager reads the description straight from the > rpm. I don,t know what smart does, I've never got it to work properly. > Dave I'm now using SMART as my software manager, and it is working perfectly. From these directions http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/suse-linux-help/108589-howto-install-use-smart-opensuse-10-3-a.html I did: # zypper sa -r http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/smart/openSUSE_10.3/smart.repo # zypper ref smart # zypper install smart # smart channel --add http://linux01.gwdg.de/~pbleser/files/smart/opensuse-10.3.txt AFter this, I run smart from the KDE menu System --> configuration Initially, the repositories (called channels by SMART) must be updated, and then I can download any new software or updates. The two most excellent things about smart are 1) if a download times out, you can just Apply the marked changes again, and smart only downloads the items that were not successful the last time. because 2) smart keeps local copies of everything it downloads. Let me know if you'd like further assistance. -- Timothy Cahill 301 Fulford-Ganges Rd. Salt Spring Island, BC, V8K 2K6 250-537-8409 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
