Keith Powell wrote:
> On Thursday 12 January 2006 5:43 pm, Pavel Rusyaev wrote:
>
>>On 1/12/06, Keith Powell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>>>When I have done a large URPMI download of stuff, I would like to
>>>keep the downloaded RPMs on my hard drive until I have burned
>>>them onto a CD-RW. Then I would like to delete them from the
>>>drive.
>>>
>>>Is there a way of doing this? I can't find any way of preventing
>>>them being automatically deleted from /var/cache/urpmi
>>>immediately after they are installed.
>>
>>urpmi --noclean
>
>
> Thanks for your reply, Pavel, but I don't think that urpmi --noclean
> will help.
>
> What I would want to do is, after a new 2006 installation, to install
> the security updates and bug fixes I need, using the
> "configuration->packaging->update" GUI and then install perhaps
> twenty or more other packages from the various repositories, using
> the "install" GUI. To have to enter some 40 package names into the
> command line would not be very satisfactory. Unless I am missing
> something obvious!
>
> With Synaptic, one can set it not to delete the files in its temporary
> cache. This is what I am looking for in 2006. I know that
> apt/synaptic can be used in Mandriva, but I don't want to change from
> using the graphical front end of urpmi.
>
> Cheers
>
> Keith
>
You can put no-clean in /etc/urpmi/urpmi.cfg. Make the first section
look something like this. (Global options)
{
downloader: wget
verify-rpm: 1
no-clean
}
The no-clean option in the config file is the same as the
--noclean command line option to urpmi. The RPMs will be in
/var/cache/urpmi/rpms.
Mikkel
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