Timothy Cahill wrote:
> On January 9, 2008, Dave Plater wrote:
>
>> Rajko M. wrote:
>>
>>> On Tuesday 08 January 2008 02:33:39 pm Timothy Cahill wrote:
>>>
>>>> installed from the live version. One annoyance is that I cannot see rpm
>>>> package descriptions for most of the rpms that came with the DVD. When I
>>>> browse the DVD using Konqueror, I can see that the descriptions are
>>>> there, but in YAST2 the description tab is blank of all information
>>>>
>
>
>> I used to have that problem when I had an rpm only directory for my
>> local repository (still wishing for a yast that saves rpms ) . It came
>> right when I used createrepo to index the repository. The descriptions
>> you see are contained in the rpm itself and createrepo places them in a
>> gz compressed xml file in the repository. This is what takes a lot of
>> time to download when a large repository refreshes.
>>
>
> Following your suggestion, I'm considering copying the DVD to harddisk, then
> running createrepo against the HD version.
> Too bad the live DVD ships with this problem. Doubly unfortunate that the
> SuSE
> team's policy is to leave flawed/broken distributions as is. It seems that
> this could be an easy thing to fix as a 10.3.01 release. While they were at
> it they could fix the broken link in YAST2's add community repositories
> application.
>
>
>> KPackage, kde's package manager reads the description straight from the
>> rpm. I don,t know what smart does, I've never got it to work properly.
>> Dave
>>
>
> I'm now using SMART as my software manager, and it is working perfectly. From
> these directions
> http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/suse-linux-help/108589-howto-install-use-smart-opensuse-10-3-a.html
>
> I did:
> # zypper sa -r
> http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/smart/openSUSE_10.3/smart.repo
> # zypper ref smart
> # zypper install smart
> # smart channel --add
> http://linux01.gwdg.de/~pbleser/files/smart/opensuse-10.3.txt
>
> AFter this, I run smart from the KDE menu System --> configuration
>
> Initially, the repositories (called channels by SMART) must be updated, and
> then I can download any new software or updates. The two most excellent
> things about smart are 1) if a download times out, you can just Apply the
> marked changes again, and smart only downloads the items that were not
> successful the last time. because 2) smart keeps local copies of everything
> it downloads.
>
> Let me know if you'd like further assistance.
>
>
>
>
>
My problem with smart is, it complains about keys for quite a few
packages in my local repo and I have to press enter for each complaint.
I tried entering a few keyservers and downloading every pgp key I found
in the online repositories, after reading smart's online help, but still
no luck. It's the "keeping a copy after install feature I like", at the
moment I use yast to find program and dependents, download rpms and then
restart yast to install from local repo. I only update the main
repositories when I need to search for a newer version or something.
Dave
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