Linux on 390 Port <[email protected]> wrote on 10/23/2014 05:29:32 PM:
> From: Mark Post <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Date: 10/23/2014 05:30 PM > Subject: Re: How to know if your z/Linux SLES11 is up-to-date > Sent by: Linux on 390 Port <[email protected]> > > >>> On 10/23/2014 at 04:09 AM, Marco Buffa <[email protected]> wrote: > > I must get back to this (a bit old) topic because I'm currently handling a > > z/Linux for which there is no chance to point at an up to date repository > > nor to refresh. > > I wonder if exists some package able to compare what is installed towards > > what is supposed to be installed according to the Service Pack. > > > > Thanks in advance for any hints or replies. > > Any tool would need access to a data source to make a comparison. > If there's no chance for that, then you're talking about a > completely manual effort. However, if you can get the most recent > version of the suse-sam and suse-sam-data RPMs installed on this > system, then you could use that to do a lot of the grunt work. > > Having said that, if there's no access to an update repository, then > you're pretty much 100% certain that system is not up to date. An > explanation of why there's no way to access a repository, might be helpful. > > > Mark Post > OK: I got your point. I have: suse-sam-0.8.4-0.7.1 suse-sam-data-0.8.4-0.5.2 (Are these up-to-date versions ?) Sorry in advance for any duplication you would deteect in following question: knowing that the repository is not up-to-date and there is no way to refresh, is there a way to download an official list of available RPMs corresponding to a specific Service Pack ? By getting this list I could start my compare activity that, of course, will include a lot of manual actions. By the way, there's no way to access an update repository because this z/Linux has been designed not to have access to internet IBM Italia S.p.A. Sede Legale: Circonvallazione Idroscalo - 20090 Segrate (MI) Cap. Soc. euro 347.256.998,80 C. F. e Reg. Imprese MI 01442240030 - Partita IVA 10914660153 Società con unico azionista Società soggetta all?attività di direzione e coordinamento di International Business Machines Corporation (Salvo che sia diversamente indicato sopra / Unless stated otherwise above) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/
