Re: [suse-sles-e] Installing SLES10 SP1

From: Eberhard Moenkeberg (emoenke_at_gwdg.de)
Date: Wed Jul 18 2007 - 20:19:40 CEST


Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2007 20:19:40 +0200 (CEST)
From: Eberhard Moenkeberg <emoenke@gwdg.de>
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0707182009060.9427@gwdu05.gwdg.de>
Subject: Re: [suse-sles-e] Installing SLES10 SP1


Hi,

On Wed, 18 Jul 2007, Marcus Meissner wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 18, 2007 at 07:04:34PM +0200, Eberhard Moenkeberg wrote:

> > After installing the move-to-sp1 patch (offered as optional by YOU), you
> > can adjust your sources to local YUP repositories
> >
> > .../SLES10-SP1-Online/sles-10-<arch>
> > .../SLES10-SP1-Updates/sles-10-<arch>
> >
> > or keep the (much slower) nu.novell.com sources which the move-to-sp1
> > patch has brought.
>
> Actually nu.novell.com should be faster than the old update.novell.com.

True. But a local YUP source is way much faster.
  
> > And then simply do YaST2 -> Software -> System Update.
> >
> > I have seen one handicap this way: the yast2-online-update rpm from the
> > new update areas refuses a signature check within YaST.
> > This happened with all of these packages:
> >
> > ./SLES10-SP1-Updates/sles-10-i586/rpm/noarch/yast2-online-update-2.13.60-0.3.noarch.rpm
> > ./SLES10-SP1-Updates/sles-10-x86_64/rpm/noarch/yast2-online-update-2.13.60-0.3.noarch.rpm
> > ./SLED10-SP1-Updates/sled-10-i586/rpm/noarch/yast2-online-update-2.13.60-0.3.noarch.rpm
> >
> > and I bet it would happen too with
> >
> > ./SLED10-SP1-Updates/sled-10-x86_64/rpm/noarch/yast2-online-update-2.13.60-0.3.noarch.rpm
>
> This is not really the right way to do it.

Some questions:

> - Install all updates from SLES10-Updates.
> - keep it still online

For what will it ever be accessed again?

> - Add SLES10-SP1-Online Channel
> - Install all the updates in there

Why not add both, SP1-Online and SP1-Updates, at the same time?
The Updates files will win.

> - Remove SLES10-SP1-Online Channel

... but I should keep it if I would like to add not yet installed packages
later?

> - Remove SLES10-Updates Channel

Why not remove it earlier?

> - Add SLES10-SP1-Updates Channel

See above, why not add it earlier?

> - ... continue to use as usual.

Viele Grüße
Eberhard Mönkeberg (emoenke@gwdg.de, em@kki.org)



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