Yep, read that. While it did get me through my proxy, I was still unable to
get to the updates. I don't recall the particular message right now, but it
kept telling me something about not being authorized or some such.
Thinking I was getting the logon/password wrong, I requested new passwords
for our support key numerous times. Other than doing the equivalent of what
I have below in Yast, nothing I did within Yast would work.
Eventually, I came up with this little 2 line script to suck down all the
recent updates. Then I just point Yast to a directory for the updates and
everything works just dandy. Just setup the http proxy statement in
/etc/wgetrc and call this script like:
get_suse_updates <proxyid> <proxypw>
#!/bin/sh
wget --mirror \
--cut-dirs=5 \
--no-host-directories \
--proxy-user=$1 \
--proxy-passwd=$2 \
--http-user=<suseid> \
--http-passwd=<susepw> \
--accept='*-[0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]\.rpm,patch-*' \
http://sdb.suse.de/download/s390x/update/SuSE-SLES/7/
BTW, this also works nicely for the IBM kernel updates as well:
#!/bin/sh
wget --mirror \
--level 1 \
--cut-dirs=2 \
--no-host-directories \
--proxy-user=$1 \
--proxy-passwd=$2 \
http://www10.software.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource/linux390/src/
Eventually, I'll be running the SuSE update script whenever I get an email
notification that a new patch is available. I've just been too lazy to do
it.
Leland
-----Original Message-----
From: Jon R. Doyle
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 2/21/03 1:54 PM
Subject: Re: Getting Online Update to work
http://sdb.suse.de/en/sdb/html/drahn_patch_update.html
Jon R. Doyle
Sendmail Inc.
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Emeryville, Ca. 94608
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On Fri, 21 Feb 2003, Lucius, Leland wrote:
> Hi Ann,
>
> I got it to work under SLES7(.2). But, I'd like to see if someone
from SuSE
> responds to your question first, before I tell what I had to do. Why?
> Because knowing me, I probably took the "wrong" way around to get it
to work
> and am curious what the "right" way is.
>
> Leland
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ann Smith
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: 2/21/03 12:52 PM
> Subject: Getting Online Update to work
>
> We recently installed SLES7 and SLES8. How do you get Online Update to
> work from YaST2? With SLES7 we get a list of ftp servers to pick from
> but can't get any to connect. With SLES8 there is no list, just one
> entry 'http://sdb.suse.de/youfix'.
> I did register our key at Suse using the website and I did ask for a
> password, though I don't know if they will be needed..
>
