On Monday 26 January 2009, Dave Plater wrote: > 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.
I would do that for yum (which is standard on Fedora) as well. Kind regards, Frank -- Dr.-Ing. Frank Mehnert Sun Microsystems http://www.sun.com/
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