[sle-beta] Beta7 Offline Update - How it's Done.. Run on VMware

[Waite, Dick (External)]

Grand Lazy Sunday,

The PDF file SUSE put out with Beta7 is grand, Pub-Date 2018-02-08..

Page 21 section 1.2 Installing without Registration... Maybe should also have, Update install without Registration is similar to a New Install but not quite as these next pages.

I'm sure there are still out there some lost souls who run a new install, well the next few lines are not for them ;o) This is for the vast majority of Linux users who already have a grand running system .... ;o)  ;o)  ;o)

Page 23 secion 1.2.2 Shows a screenshot of what a new install will see, it's what to press to skip the registration and allow you to run off-line. But the good Update crowd do not see this picture, and maybe as myself think I have walked off the green brick road... No your still on the path to happiness, but you get a different screen shot which is not shown in the PDF. So keep going and you will rejoin the PDF again.

As shown you have to tick some boxes. Most describe themselves and there are very good words on what they all do.
I had issues with that well know bad boy on the block, "Web Scripting", I don't seem to be able to get that clean, as seen in the attached screen shots.
But one is rewarded at the end with a sort of grand running Beta7. I'm sure I should have ticked another box, but I didn't see one I liked.

rjw02-15-0-0:~ # zypper ve
Loading repository data...
Reading installed packages...
6 Problems:
Problem: nothing provides product(sle-module-server-applications) >= 15 needed by product:sle-module-web-scripting-15-0.x86_64
Problem: nothing provides python2-pyparsing >= 2.2.0 needed by python2-packaging-16.8-1.10.noarch
Problem: nothing provides product(sle-module-server-applications) >= 15 needed by product:sle-module-web-scripting-15-0.x86_64
Problem: nothing provides python2-pyparsing >= 2.2.0 needed by python2-packaging-16.8-1.10.noarch
Problem: nothing provides python2-pyparsing >= 2.2.0 needed by python2-packaging-16.8-1.10.noarch
Problem: nothing provides python2-pyparsing >= 2.2.0 needed by python2-packaging-16.8-1.10.noarch

Problem: nothing provides product(sle-module-server-applications) >= 15 needed by product:sle-module-web-scripting-15-0.x86_64
 Solution 1: deinstallation of product:sle-module-web-scripting-15-0.x86_64
 Solution 2: break sle-module-web-scripting-release-15-67.1.x86_64 by ignoring some of its dependencies

Choose from above solutions by number or skip, retry or cancel [1/2/s/r/c] (c): c
rjw02-15-0-0:~ #

This was run on VMware, so from my point of view one can use Beta7 for Update on a VMware environment.

One last point, to run an off-line Update one has to be "Off-Line". Some times a SUSEConnect --cleanup will be enough, sometimes it's like pulling rhinoceros teeth...
I have found, on SLES12 the following 80% of the time works to de-Register a SLE client from a SMT server....
SUSEConnect --cleanup
2018-02-18 08:25:24 rm -f /etc/SUSEConnect
2018-02-18 08:25:53 rm -rf /etc/zypp/credentials.d/*
2018-02-18 08:26:07 rm -rf /etc/zypp/repos.d/*
2018-02-18 08:26:18 rm -rf /etc/zypp/services.d/*

Sometimes I have had clients that just hang in there, I move on to another machine I need to test Beta7 on and hope Beta-n will have some more pulling power ;o)

I hope the above helps help some of the Update's, the new Installers can look forward to the day they do have a working tuned system, which just needs an UPDATE to continue it's good work.

I have not been able to get an on-line Update to run on Beta7, there is an open bug report on this.

Have a very good week.

__R



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