On Thu, Apr 05, 2007 at 05:45:45PM -0400, Felix Miata wrote: > On 2007/04/05 17:14 (GMT-0400) Patrick Shanahan apparently typed: > > > and *somehow* the lack of disk space or anticipation of available disk > > space is "smart"'s fault? > > Yup. It's competition, such as yast & urpmi, are both smart enough to mix > some installation and rpm file deletion in with the downloading so that disk > freespace is a virtual non-issue.
I guess you are looking for the "--stepped" mode of smart. (It makes sure to first download and then instantly install a package, instead of downloading all packages at once and installing them afterwards.) Thanks, Christoph -- Christoph Thiel, Tech. Project Management, Research & Development SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
