Re: [opensuse] YAST2 not displaying package descriptions

Timothy Cahill wrote:
On January 9, 2008, Dave Plater wrote:

Rajko M. wrote:

On Tuesday 08 January 2008 02:33:39 pm Timothy Cahill wrote:

installed from the live version. One annoyance is that I cannot see rpm
package descriptions for most of the rpms that came with the DVD. When I
browse the DVD using Konqueror, I can see that the descriptions are
there, but in YAST2 the description tab is blank of all information



I used to have that problem when I had an rpm only directory for my
local repository (still wishing for a yast that saves rpms ) . It came
right when I used createrepo to index the repository. The descriptions
you see are contained in the rpm itself and createrepo places them in a
gz compressed xml file in the repository. This is what takes a lot of
time to download when a large repository refreshes.


Following your suggestion, I'm considering copying the DVD to harddisk, then
running createrepo against the HD version.
Too bad the live DVD ships with this problem. Doubly unfortunate that the SuSE
team's policy is to leave flawed/broken distributions as is. It seems that
this could be an easy thing to fix as a 10.3.01 release. While they were at
it they could fix the broken link in YAST2's add community repositories
application.


KPackage, kde's package manager reads the description straight from the
rpm. I don,t know what smart does, I've never got it to work properly.
Dave


I'm now using SMART as my software manager, and it is working perfectly. From
these directions
http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/suse-linux-help/108589-howto-install-use-smart-opensuse-10-3-a.html

I did:
# zypper sa -r
http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/smart/openSUSE_10.3/smart.repo
# zypper ref smart
# zypper install smart
# smart channel --add
http://linux01.gwdg.de/~pbleser/files/smart/opensuse-10.3.txt

AFter this, I run smart from the KDE menu System --> configuration

Initially, the repositories (called channels by SMART) must be updated, and
then I can download any new software or updates. The two most excellent
things about smart are 1) if a download times out, you can just Apply the
marked changes again, and smart only downloads the items that were not
successful the last time. because 2) smart keeps local copies of everything
it downloads.

Let me know if you'd like further assistance.





My problem with smart is, it complains about keys for quite a few
packages in my local repo and I have to press enter for each complaint.
I tried entering a few keyservers and downloading every pgp key I found
in the online repositories, after reading smart's online help, but still
no luck. It's the "keeping a copy after install feature I like", at the
moment I use yast to find program and dependents, download rpms and then
restart yast to install from local repo. I only update the main
repositories when I need to search for a newer version or something.
Dave
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