On Sat, 28 Jun 2003 10:52 am, Praedor Atrebates wrote:
> At home I am stuck forevermore with a godawful slow dialup connection. As > a result, I rarely do a MandrakeUpdate from home - takes way too long with > anything over a several megs of files. My laptop gets access to a fast > connection at my university so it gets updated often...but such a waste. > My laptop is a pathetic old celery 366 stinkpad. > It would be way nice if I could do a MandrakeUpdate at work/school with > my laptop and select to save the downloaded rpms so I could go home, > connect up to my desktop, and upgrade it too. MandrakeUpdate deletes all > the rpms it downloads, and good thing else you would begin to seriously > consume hdd space. What I would like is an option to save the rpm > downloaded by MandrakeUpdate...perhaps to another directory or simply leave > them in their cache directory until I elect to dump them. Make > MandrakeUpdate default behavior to delete the downloads but give an option > to save them. itīs odd that urpmi --auto-select --noclean will do exactly this, but the gui front end doesnīt include this option, I agree -- john in sydney Mandrake Linux 9.1, Kernel version: 2.4.21-0.18mdk OpenPGP key available on www.keyserver.net 1024D/3E4A902F B38A AB0F 8658 D9E1 4900 3050 08FA D4FA 3E4A 902F
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