I wanted to post a summary of my experiences with the SLES10 SP1 upgrade
process. Some of these experiences will be submitted as bugs to Novell;
some were just things I felt others might find it useful to be aware of.
Starting with a clone of our (customized) master SLES10 GA system image,
I chose to apply the service pack by IPLing the SP1 DVD installation
system and using YaST2 to update software packages.
Notes:
1. I have a list of 150 RPM packages which have been removed from our
customized master SLES10 GA system image. During the documentation of
this process for the GA release I discovered that it was impossible to
use YaST2 to prevent these packages from being installed to begin with;
it was only possible to let YaST2 install them and then remove them with
"rpm -e", afterward. Of these 150 packages, the SP1 update process
re-installed all but three, despite my having selected the option to
only update installed packages.
2. In addition to the 147 GA packages which had been re-installed, there
were 30 new packages installed with SP1 which did not correspond to ones
I had removed from the GA system. A nubmer of these were new 32-bit
versions of packages which existed in GA as 64-bit only---some, 32-bit
versions of 64-bit packages I had removed:
audit-libs-32bit
gtk-sharp2-32bit
libgsf-32bit
libgssapi-32bit
libnscd-32bit
libpcap-32bit
mozilla-nspr-32bit
mozilla-nss-32bit
openct-32bit
opensc-32bit
The following appeared in (were available with) GA, but had not been
installed until the SP1 update:
libiniparser
xlockmore
The following are the entirely-new packages installed with SP1:
gtk-engines
inst-source-utils
libgdiplus
libssui
limal-nfs-server
limal-nfs-server-perl
mono-winforms
pciutils-ids
sles-heatbeat_en
sles-preparation-zseries_en
sles-startup_en
sles-stor_evms_en
util-linux-crypto
yast2-autofs
yast2-boot-server
yast2-control-center-qt
yast2-registration
zypper
3. There was one package which was automatically removed during the SP1
update:
autoyast2-utils
4. Several new services were installed and some were automatically
enabled (chkconfig):
dumpconf off
earlygdm on
mon_fsstatd off
splash on
splash_early on
suseRegister on
5. Of the services I had disabled in GA, the SP1 update re-enabled one
without telling me (chkconfig).
novell-zmd
6. The SP1 update also replaced the contents of
/etc/sysconfig/hardware/hwcfg-qeth-bus-ccw-0.0.a001, rendering the linux
guest uncommunicative on the network. We have QETH_OPTIONS="fake_ll=1"
set in this file so that DHCP works correctly on our layer 3 VSWITCH.
When this file was replaced, it prevented the linux guest from receiving
its DHCP lease, in turn preventing the second stage of the update from
completing successfully, as YaST2 could not open the X display on my
desktop PC. Since this stage of the update launches YaST2 without giving
the opportunity for a console login session, we had to utilize a rescue
system to make the changes (in our case, a single-user boot option in
zIPL) before we could continue with the update.
I hope some of you may find this information useful.
ok
r.
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