From: Alexei_Roudnev (Alexei_Roudnev_at_exigengroup.com)
Date: Tue Mar 07 2006 - 19:45:01 CET
Message-ID: <1cfc01c64217$3df05740$6f31a8c0@sjc.exigengroup.com> From: "Alexei_Roudnev" <Alexei_Roudnev@exigengroup.com> Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2006 10:45:01 -0800 Subject: Re: [suse-sles-e] SP 2
You can set up YOU server 9which wil syncronize itself) and then set up you
directory as additional installation source.
It is not _recommended_ (recommended is to use SP packages) method but it
should work.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dexter" <dexter@madalbal.sk>
To: "Alexei_Roudnev" <Alexei_Roudnev@exigengroup.com>
Cc: <suse-sles-e@suse.com>
Sent: Tuesday, March 07, 2006 1:13 AM
Subject: Re: [suse-sles-e] SP 2
> Is there no way to add oficial SLES ftp or http server as source of
> instalation (e.g. as you.novell.com/updates is for updates)? Once I
> succeded to add http source of instalation, but it wass not oficial
> SLES.
> If I login to this page:
> http://sdb.suse.de/download/x86_64/update/SUSE-CORE/9/rpm/x86_64/
> than I can acces new versions of packages, but only throught web
> brouser. I did not succed to add it as source of instalation.
> Maybe I should use cron and wget to download reguraly new packages to
> directory and use this directory as source. But I hope, there is less
> funny solution.
> Thanks
> Dexter
>
> On Mon, 2006-03-06 at 10:30 -0800, Alexei_Roudnev wrote:
> > It's all strange.
> >
> > What I did usually:
> > - downloaded CD's; mounted them (as iso files) and COPY them all flat
into
> > the new directory (such as SLES9-AMD-SP3, for example).
> > Not into CD1, CD2 CD3 (as Install server do) but just copy them into
this
> > directory.
> >
> > After it I have 2 options:
> > - (1) Use YAST2 and run 'CD update' using directory as update source -
works
> > well;
> > - (2) Add directory as installation soucre and move it up in the list.
> >
> > In addition, you can try to add YOU files (they are somewhere in
/var/lib
> > directory' as an installation source, just as a set of RPM's,
> > but it is better to use ServicePack disk(s).)
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Dexter" <dexter@madalbal.sk>
> > To: <suse-sles-e@suse.com>
> > Sent: Saturday, March 04, 2006 8:18 AM
> > Subject: [suse-sles-e] SP 2
> >
> >
> > > Hello,
> > > i downloaded 3 CD Service Pack 2 for SLES 9 x86_64. I tried automatic
> > > update, but there was an error.
> > > Finaly I succeded to update system with YOU online update. But now I
> > > have problem with installation of new packages. When I want to install
> > > something new through Yast2, I get conflicts, becouse my system is
> > > updated, but soure of installation is not changed. It tries to install
> > > old package to new system.
> > > I know, I should add new source of installation, but it doesn`t work.
My
> > > CD's are not recognized as product. And even if i add them as source
of
> > > instalation, they are ignored.
> > > How can i solve this problem?
> > > Thanks
> > > Dexter
> > >
> > >
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