download with rsync all packages and make local repo

**mfaridi** · 28-Nov-2010, 02:02

in home I do not have internet connection , but in work I have internet connection, in home I install Fedora 14 for my 6 years old daughter and she use it for play games like supertux and openarena and ...
So I want install opensuse for my daughter and I want test it .
for fedora , I download all packages with rsync in work and move them to home by USN flash and then I make localrepo in home and install all packages , I need , I want do this for OpenSUSE , all of us know DVD , does not has all packages , I need , so I have to download all packages and make localrepo in home and install all packages , I need ,
Can I do this for OpenSuse or not ,
I want download all packages need by OpenSuse by rsysc and make loacl repo,
How I can do this for Opensuse ???

**robin_listas** · 28-Nov-2010, 05:03

On 2010-11-28 10:06, mfaridi wrote:

> How I can do this for Opensuse ???

The only known way is to download all. Just copy the entire repo (oss and
non-oss) as is. You may skip the architectures you do not use. If you
replicate the repo you do not need to run makerepo, I think.

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Cheers / Saludos,

Carlos E. R.
(from 11.2 x86_64 "Emerald" at Telcontar)

**vodoo** · 28-Nov-2010, 05:03

Easy. Read here: openSUSE:Mirror infrastructure - openSUSE.

Caveat: You will have a problem to carry your downloaded stuff home. OSS repo for 11.3 32Bit is approx. 9GB. Updates are 6GB at this time. You will need an external HD drive to store and carry.

Example (full repo 11.1 to 11.3, 188GB):

Code:

prompt> cat rsync-distro
#!/bin/bash
# rsync the SuSE distro
#
rsync -rlpt --exclude-from="/drive/distro-excludelist" -hi --stats \
rsync.opensuse.org::opensuse-full /drive/repo

Code:

prompt> cat distro-excludelist
/opensuse/distribution/11.4-Milestone1
/opensuse/distribution/11.4-Milestone2
/opensuse/distribution/11.4-Milestone3
/opensuse/distribution/11.4-Milestone4
/opensuse/distribution/11.4-Milestone5

Add everything not absolutely needed to distro-excludelist.

**mfaridi** · 28-Nov-2010, 06:21

Wow , I can not believe , I have to download 188GB for make local repo
I downloaded all rpm packages for Fedora 14 32 bit and make local repo and all of them was 25GB and move them to home by USB flash.
I need only rpm packages and need only packages use by OpenSUSE 11.3 and I do not want update packages , and I will download packages for OpenSuse 11.4 when it release

**robin_listas** · 28-Nov-2010, 07:03

On 2010-11-28 14:36, mfaridi wrote:
>
> Wow , I can not believe , I have to download 188GB for make local repo
> I downloaded all rpm packages for Fedora 14 32 bit and make local repo
> and all of them was 25GB and move them to home by USB flash.
> I need only rpm packages and need only packages use by OpenSUSE 11.3
> and I do not want update packages , and I will download packages for
> OpenSuse 11.4 when it release

You have to choose what you download. Each repo has directories for each
architecture, like 64 or 32 bits, sources... select the directories you need.

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Cheers / Saludos,

Carlos E. R.
(from 11.2 x86_64 "Emerald" at Telcontar)

**mfaridi** · 28-Nov-2010, 07:47

I need ony packages use OpenSUSE 11.3 x64 and I want install them and make local repo and install all packages I need , like VLC , mplayer , Nvidia Driver for games like openarena and tuxracer

**mfaridi** · 28-Nov-2010, 08:24

another questions about this topic , in FreeBSD we have folder , name of this folder is

Code:

distfiles

when we install packages , after installation package , we can find original files in

Code:

distfiles

and we can copy all files and move them to other FreeBSD machine and install that packages , it is good , when our machine does not has internet connection and FreeBSD box use distiles for install packages , when FreeBSD can not find files in

Code:

distfiles

FreeBSD box try download it from internet ,
Does we have something like this for OpenSUSE , for example I download all packages and then move them to that folder for example cache directory and then start install packages from that directory ?

**robin_listas** · 28-Nov-2010, 09:38

On 2010-11-28 16:36, mfaridi wrote:
>
> another questions about this topic , in FreeBSD we have folder , name of
> this folder is
> Code:
> --------------------
> distfiles
> --------------------
> when we install packages , after installation package , we can find
> original files in

Configure repos (zypper, yast) to keep downloaded packages. Then export the
directory via nfs, import in other machines, configure repos in the same
way, make links if needed.

Not automatic.

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Cheers / Saludos,

Carlos E. R.
(from 11.2 x86_64 "Emerald" at Telcontar)

**mfaridi** · 30-Nov-2010, 22:42

But I want make locl repo , I want make local repo on my HDD and install from HDD , I do this with Fedora and want do this with OpenSuse

**robin_listas** · 01-Dec-2010, 03:03

On 2010-12-01 07:06, mfaridi wrote:
>
> But I want make locl repo , I want make local repo on my HDD and install
> from HDD , I do this with Fedora and want do this with OpenSuse

As I said, there is no automated method to do this in openSUSE. You have to
setup it manually. There are several procedures, and you need to know how
things work.

One possibility, from David C. Rankin:

http://www.3111skyline.com/linux/ope...ocalUpdate.php
http://www.3111skyline.com/download/...manage.tar.bz2

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Cheers / Saludos,

Carlos E. R.
(from 11.2 x86_64 "Emerald" at Telcontar)