Ok, looks like I got the path wrong in that symlink. The one that actualy
works and lets me install packages (and correctly resolves dependencies) is
core9/CD1/suse.
Cheers
- Tex
Brendan Kelly
Senior z/OS & Linux IT
Specialist
Open Source Community of
Practice Co-Leader
IBM Global Technology
Services
348 Edward St, Brisbane, QLD
4000
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----- Forwarded by Brendan Kelly/Australia/IBM on 09/11/06 04:27 PM -----
Brendan Kelly/Australia/IBM wrote on 08/11/2006 10:44:49 AM:
> We had some trouble after doing a minimal install of SLES9 s390x
> getting yast (or yast2) to install additional packages that were on
> different CDs. After some trial and error (and trolling through
> apache logs) I discovered for s390x (not s390) you need a symlink
> from the root installation directory to /sles9/CD1/yast/core9/suse.
> Once this symlink is in place accessing the repository via yast
> seems to work. We suspect this is indicative of a yast bug on s390x
> but have not yet worked out the details.
>
> Also note that often people do not bother loading the source CDs so
> we had to hack the script to remove the need for CD's 5 & 6.
>
> I will update the script and send a new version to Mark soonish.
>
> Cheers
>
> - Tex
>
>
>
> Brendan Kelly
> Senior z/OS & Linux IT Specialist
> Strategic Outsourcing
> IBM Global Technology Services
> Australia and New Zealand
> 348 Edward St, Brisbane, QLD 4000
> +61-7-3213-2133
> +61-419-394-143
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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