Re: Keep packages from YaSt updates

Olav P. adjusted his/her tinfoil beanie to post:

> Hello,
>
> During the 9.3 release cycle I have taken the YaST route
exclusively,
> meaning that I have e.g. updated KDE by pointing YaST to the
relevant
> mirror.
>
> This works great but I cannot seem to find an option to store the
> updated packages during this process, which would be very handy in
> order to update my laptop with the same packages. (I have used apt
> before, where you can opt to store downloaded packages.)
>
> I suspect that this is a silly question and I could be overlooking
> something very simple - nevertheless, it is not obvious to me how
this
> can be achieved.
>
> Olav
>

There is a tick box on the page when the files are being loaded and
installed, if you un-tick it the source packages will be left on the
machine after the update finishes, these can be found under:

/var/lib/YaST2

HTH
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