duplicate downloads - arrrghh

[Christoph Thiel]

On Fri, 21 Jul 2006, Mikus Grinbergs wrote:

> Running 'smart --gui' 0.42 on an x86-64 system with SuSE 10.1.
> 
> As far as I can remember, I have not manually specified 2nd party (SuSE) 
> channels to this system.  I have installed all four smart- related 
> packages -- they have "automagically" set up such channels for me.  I do 
> __not__ know whether there exists any overlap -- such that more than one 
> channel would point to repositories which were different, but provided 
> the same packages.  (The "automagically" defined channels *do* specify 
> multiple mirrors.)

You are most likely using Pascal's (3rd party!) smart packages, which come 
with a set of channels preconfigured. As long as you are using the stock 
SUSE smart package, you won't get any preconfigured channels!


Regards
	Christoph