Is it possible to change the package dir?

[M9]

Hi,

I have a fixed var partition, and it is too small to contain all the
packages for a major upgrade.
YaST2 can not be instructed anymore, to install from a dir, helas.
I have about 900MB rpm packages sitting in /var/lib/smart/packages...
I do not want to throw them away...
If I could change this dir to a dir with more room, my problem would be
solved for now.

thnx,

M9.