Re: [suse-sles-e] Many RPMs are missing in SLES10

From: Marcus Meissner (meissner_at_suse.de)
Date: Thu Jul 20 2006 - 17:47:23 CEST 

Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2006 17:47:23 +0200
From: Marcus Meissner <meissner@suse.de>
Message-ID: <20060720154723.GB10329@suse.de>
Subject: Re: [suse-sles-e] Many RPMs are missing in SLES10

On Thu, Jul 20, 2006 at 03:06:41PM +0200, Heiko Helmle wrote:
> shashi wrote:
> > I am desperately looking for a package called OpenVPN (SSL VPN from Open
> > Source) , which is part of SuSE 10.1 , but badly this package is not
> > present in SLES10.
>
> You can find openvpn on SLED10 however :). Seriously - i'm missing that
> one too.
>
> But i'm missing yast-you-server even more because nearly all servers
> have no internet access (why should they). So how are they going to get
> patches?

There is currently no out-of-the-box solution, but a Zenworks
Satellite solution is planned and in Beta as far as I know.

You can however mirror the update.novell.com repo.

$ grep update.novell.com /var/lib/zypp/db/sources/* will result:
<url>https://>:<pass>@update.novell.com/repo/$RCE/SLED10-Updates/sled-10-x86_64/?auth=digest</url>

For using the URL remove the "?auth=digest" part.

.../$RCE/SLED10-Updates/sles-10-i586/
                                ^^ use arch of your system.
         ^^^ SLES10 for SLES
    ^ Real $ sign.

id = content of /etc/zmd/deviceid
pass = content of /etc/zmd/secret

Unfortunately this does not work with wget, you need CURL or anything
which is HTTP Digest Auth capable.

I have attached a sample REPO-MD Mirror Script for your viewing pleasure.
(It downloads, but I have not tested it as update source.)

Note that you should register all your servers correctly.

Ciao, Marcus

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