Frank Mehnert wrote: > On Friday 23 January 2009, Johannes Kastl wrote: > >> Me again, >> >> Johannes Kastl schrieb: >> >>> I have not tested it myself >>> >> I could not resist and tested it myself. Pretty easy. >> >> Just put the RPMS into a folder in your ftp/http/whatever server, and run >> createrepo FOLDERNAME >> >> After that you will notice a folder called repodata in your RPMS folder. >> >> Then add the RPMS folder in apt/yast/yum/..., and it works. Pretty nice. >> >> If you have large repos, where not too much new files get added, >> createrepo has a switch to just update the metadata, not create it from >> scratch. >> > > Yes, works here as well. There is only one question left: > > rpm repositories apparently allow to contain one package with different > versions. So, it would be possible to have VirtualBox 2.0.6 (the last > stable release of the 2.0.x branch) together with the current 2.1.2 > release in the same repository. Is it somehow possible to have sticky > packages? For instance, if the user wants to stay on 2.0.6 but the same > repository contains 2.1.2 as well. Next time when doing 'yum update', > VirtualBox will updated to 2.1.2 if 2.0.6 was installed. Is it somehow > possible to prevent this mechanism? > > Kind regards, > > Frank > You can select the version you wish to use in the versions tab in yast2 software manager and zypper the cli tool you specify the version using >, =, < symbols. I don't have experience of yum or smart. zypper help in install (in) [options] <capability|rpm_file_uri> ...
Install packages with specified capabilities or RPM files with specified location. A capability is NAME[OP<VERSION>], where OP is one of <, <=, =, >=, >. I have downloaded vbox rpm and installed from local repo created using createrepo for a while. Regards Dave P _______________________________________________ vbox-users mailing list vbox-users@virtualbox.org http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users
