On Friday 03 December 2004 11:00, Volker Kuhlmann wrote: > Aggh, you should run YOU weekly, if not daily. Computer hard drive failure= no computer to update=Aggh >
> The path is wrong, planetmirror have changed their directory layout > (some while back, and not so smart). It should now be > ftp://public.planetmirror.com.au/pub/suse/suse/ Excellent...Yast Update now operational again :-) > > looked there were something in the order of 500Mb worth! new Update run revealed 95.5Mb installable patches available...so the stress of being computerless was playing tricks on my memory..things aren't too bad afterall. . I could get > you the current patches for 9.1. Would appreciate these to bring me back up to date..please respond off-list to arrange. > > New with 9.2 are delta rpms for updates which are about 10% the size of > the full rpms. The downside is that unlike the patch rpms (typically 30% > of full size), they can't be installed directly, but have to be used > with a copy of the original rpm from the CDs to create a new full rpm. > The process is safe because the new rpm carries an md5 sum and is signed > by SuSE's package key. Interesting...in your view should I be updating to 9.2 or will support for the 30% patch rpms in 9.1 be around for some time to come? > > Volker Cheers Ralph
