If you don't want to point that server at the Internet, can you point it at some other internal server running SMT? https://www.suse.com/documentation/smt11/ SMT is pretty easy to setup.
There have been hundreds of fixes since SLES 11 SP3 came out. Even if you took the list from them, you are still out of date. Marcy -----Original Message----- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Marco Buffa Sent: Monday, October 27, 2014 7:33 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [LINUX-390] How to know if your z/Linux SLES11 is up-to-date 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/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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/
