Where does Rpmdrake store downloaded RPMs?

[fisher]

Hello everyone

 

When you install software from an online repository with Rpmdrake, where does Rpmdrake download the software to before installing it?

 

Please reply. I will appreciate any help you give me.

[Steve Scrimpshire]

I'm not at my Linux box at the moment, but I believe it is /var/cache/urpmi/RPMS

By default, it deletes them after installation.

[ianw1974]

Steve is right on the nail. Ones partially downloaded should be /var/cache/urpmi/partial or /var/cache/urpmi/RPMS/partial - can't quite remember as I too also not got a Mandriva install handy right now.

[fisher]

Hello everyone

 

Thank you for your answers.

[grendal]

If you want to keep them, you can do this, in a terminal: (as root, of course)

 

urpmi --noclean yourpackage.rpm

 

replace yourpackage.rpm with what you want to install

I think that still works, I haven't used it in a while.

[Yankee]

I'd like to keep my updates and what I download and install. How do I make it keep everything? I'd like to burn them so that I can reinstall everything without downloading again.

 

Thanks

[dexter11]

You mean with the GUI (rpmdrake)? AFAIK there's no such option for rpmdrake yet. You have to use the command line as described in the previous post.

[jkerr82508]

I'd like to keep my updates and what I download and install. How do I make it keep everything? I'd like to burn them so that I can reinstall everything without downloading again.

 

Add the following option to /etc/urpmi/urpmi.cfg

 

 {
post-clean :0
}

 

This will negate the default post-clean option

 

See man urpmi.cfg.

 

Jim

[Yankee]

Thank you...this worked like a charm. This needs to be in the settings.