I just found out that SMT does not work on sles 10 s390x and that YUP is
no longer supported.
Document (3065146) "Setting up a local update server for SLE 10 with
YUP" states Please note, that as of July 2008 yup is deprecated. It has
been replaced by SMT (Subscription Management Tool for SUSE Linux
Enterprise).
The following is from a PMR I opened with IBM. Anyone who wants SMT to
run on 390x should contact IBM or Novell reps and maybe they will add
390x support.
Action Taken: Response from Novell engineering
I'm afraid, for now SMT is only available for x86 and x86_64 and so far
there is no planned release for s390x yet.
But if Novell sees customer demand for s390 please let us know, we will
be happy to adjust the situation if a proven and reasonable business
case is given and a product management's review approves it, taking all
constraints into account.
There is a request for such feature already in our enhancement request
tool and I will monitor it. If you have any strong business case, please
let me know and I will add it to the request.
Currently Novell advises customers who use s390x architecture to setup a
x86 or x86_64 system with SMT.
I know the solution is not working well for every customer and I'm sure
there are reasons why they would want to keep their environment zSeries
only. That is when a business case comes into place and will help to
build a strong case for Novell.
The same applies to PPC and IA64, although chances for a solution on
s390x are much higher.
Alan Levy
VM/Linux Administrator
NYC DoITT
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