On Monday 14 January 2008 05:05:15 pm Myrosia Dzikovska wrote: > We started installing the system on one of our laptops, and discovered > that we cannot add the community repositories because the file > http://download.opensuse.org/YaST/Repos/openSUSE_103_Servers.xml > seems to be only on opensuse.org and not mirrored anywhere. > > We could, of course, enter all 10 or so community repositories > manually by copying the info from my laptop, but that seems to be a > major pain, since I cannot see a way to export my list, and it would > be lots of mouse clicking and copying on both sides. > > I, obviously, know about the mirror repositories, but I cannot find > this file mirrored anywhere. Is it possible to get? > > Myrosia > > P.S. Would be really nice for the future if this info was included in > the mirrors - how do these decisions get made?
To move repository list from machine to machine you can use zypper: -------------------------------------------------------------------- # zypper lr --help repos (lr) List all defined repositories. Command options: -e, --export <FILE.repo> Export all defined repositories as a single local .repo file -------------------------------------------------------------------- # zypper ar --help addrepo (ar) [options] <URI> <alias> Add repository specified by URI to the system and assing the specified alias to it. Command options: -r, --repo <FILE.repo> Read the URL and alias from a file (even remote) -t, --type <TYPE> Type of repository (yast2, rpm-md, or plaindir) -d, --disabled Add the repository as disabled -n, --no-refresh Add the repository with auto-refresh disabled -------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Regards, Rajko -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
