[ATrpms-users] Keeping files downloaded by Smart

[Michael Mansour]

Hi,

> On Mon, Jan 16, 2006 at 01:19:51PM +0000, John Pilkington wrote:
> > Synaptic has just been removed from the fc3 repo.  I have used it with 
> > the setting that retained the rpm files in the cache after installation.
> > 
> > Smart-gui doesn't appear to offer this.  Is there a better way than  using
> > 
> > smart install --download  (package)
> > 
> > then copying the files to another folder and then
> > 
> > smart install (package)
> > 
> > This final command 'cleans' the cache, but the copies are retained.
> 
> Good question, I'm copying the smart list on that.

yum also has the same feature, to store the package and not delete it after
installation. I use yum in this way to nfs export that repo directory to other
yum clients that share it as their directory cache.

Michael.