[ATrpms-users] Keeping files downloaded by Smart

[Tako Schotanus]

Martin Lubich wrote:
> On Monday 16 January 2006 19:06, Axel Thimm wrote:
>   
>> 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.
>>     
> i wanted to do the same and came across a tip in a forum
>
> using 
>
> smart config --set remove-packages=true
>
> did the trick for me. the packages downloaded to /var/lib/smart/packages are 
> not removed afdter installation.
>
> it would be a real blessing to have these kind of options documented somewhere 
> ( hint, hint  ;-) )
>
>   
Are you sure it is "remove-packages=true"? Logic dictates it would do 
exactly the opposite :-)

Cheers,
 -Tako