[ATrpms-users] Keeping files downloaded by Smart

[Tako Schotanus]

But why would you want to use synaptic to downoad your packages and 
smart to install them?

I can understand that if you are on a slow line and have used synaptic 
before that you would want to do this, but it would be a one-time 
operation, wouldn't it?

Cheers,
 -Tako

John Pilkington wrote:

>A cautionary followup:
>
>After using
>
>smart config --set remove-packages=false
>
>smart does use the file that has been downloaded if, for example, one 
>selects a reinstall - as I had hoped.
>
>But a reinstall hoping to use a file saved by synaptic that has been 
>copied into the smart packages folder will instead reload the file from 
>the external repository.
>
>It looks as if this happens because files from smart get filenames of 
>the form
>
>name-version.arch.rpm
>
>but those from synaptic are called
>
>name_version_arch.rpm
>
>After I had renamed a 9 MB file saved by synaptic to conform with what 
>smart had said it expected a test reinstallation completed successfully 
>- but the process is less automatic than I had hoped.
>
>HTH
>
>John Pilkington
>
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