Keeping files downloaded by Smart

[John Pilkington]

Hi Axel et al

I think I have found my problem:  I had smart-gui active when I tried
running the 'smart config' commands from a terminal.

When smart-gui is not active the terminal commands are accepted.

Thanks for your help.

John

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Many thanks for your test/info.  Here's what I get:

# smart config --data-dir=/var/lib/smart

( this was just to check that I was looking in the right place)
( owner, group can read, write /var/lib/smart/config )

# smart config --set remove-packages=false
error: Configuration is in readonly mode.

# smart config --show  remove-packages
warning: Option 'remove-packages' not found.

???

John

> 
> The following works
> 
> smart config --set remove-packages=false
> 
> Martin just switched the logic in the example.
> 
> Packages land under /var/lib/smart/packages/, so you can NFS-export
> this to your other clients.
> 
> Test:
> 
> # smart config --set remove-packages=false
> 
> # smart install ivtv-firmware-audio
> Loading cache...
> Updating cache...
> ######################################## [100%]
> 
> Computing transaction...
> 
> Installed packages (1):
>   ivtv-firmware-audio-0.0.1-5.at at noarch  
> 
> 9.6kB of package files are needed. 13.0kB will be used.
> 
> Confirm changes? (Y/n): 
> 
> Fetching packages...                                                           
> -> http://dl.atrpms.net/.../ivtv-firmware-audio-0.0.1-5.at.noarch.rpm          
> ivtv-firmware-audio-0.0.1-5.a..
> ######################################## [100%]
> 
>                                                                                
> Committing transaction...
> Preparing...
> ######################################## [  0%]
>    1:Installing
>    ivtv-firmware.. ######################################## [100%]
> 
> 
> # ls /var/lib/smart/packages/
> ivtv-firmware-audio-0.0.1-5.at.noarch.rpm
> 
> 
> On Thu, Jan 19, 2006 at 05:22:56PM +0000, John Pilkington wrote:
> 
>>I posted a shorter version of this on the ATrpms list yesterday, but it
>>looks more at home here:
>>
>>I asked how to use smart to install rpm packages and still retain them
>>for use elsewhere - this facility was present in synaptic, now obsolete
>>in the ATrpms fc3 repo.
>>
>>Martin Lubich reported success using:
>>
>>         smart config --set remove-packages=true
>>
>>but this didn't seem to fit the current version of Smart on ATrpms for
>>fc3   (remove-packages wasn't recognized, and the logic looks wrong).
>>
>>After trying several variations suggested by smart --help  and variants
>>it looked as if
>>
>>         smart config  --set clean=false
>>
>>might work:  at least it produced a plausible response to
>>
>>         smart config --show clean       ---->      False
>>
>>But this doesn't appear to affect operations.  The  packages folder is
>>still cleaned after installation, using either smart alone or smart-gui.
>>
>>HTH - other suggestions still hoped-for!
>>
>>John
> 
>