On Sunday 03 April 2005 09:28, Duncan Anderson wrote: > Robert Yu wrote: > >Is it possible to save the packages downloaded from this site onto a > >cache folder for later use? > > You can download the packages using ftp or something similar, and then, > when they are all sitting in a directory, call up a root shell and go to > the directory and type the following: > > genhdlist --dest `pwd` > > If you get errors, then type the following in order to ignore corrupted > archives: > > genhdlist --nobadrpm --dest `pwd` > > Then, when it has completed, run Mandrake Control Centre and go to media > manager and set up the directory as a source. > > It works for me. I just ignore the whining about checksums and click on > "yes" and then the stuff installs straight from rpmdrake. > "urpmi" should pick it up too, although I usually use the GUII tool for > this one. > > cheers > Duncan
If you run "urpmi" from the commandline, add the --no-clean flag, i.e. "urpmi --no-clean packagename.rpm" That way the installed rpm will stay in /var/cache/urpmi/rpms/ W.o. the no-clean flag they get deleated when the install script finishes. -- Good luck, HarM
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