caching downloaded packages

[Gustavo Niemeyer]

> When I posted, I assumed there was something wrong with the package
> that was downloaded.  That is why I did not ask for how to correct
> the package.  But I *was* under the impression that smart downloaded
> packages to /var/lib/smart/packages, and only deleted them if the
> package install went o.k.  In this case, the package install failed.
> How come that package was not left in /var/lib/smart/packages ?

Probably because the error you report isn't reported by the rpmlib
as a fatal problem, and so Smart belives that the transaction
succeeded, and goes on removing packages (unless you have
remove-packages as false, in which case it'll never remove them).

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Gustavo Niemeyer
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