On 06/04/24 02:48 (GMT-0400) Pascal Bleser apparently typed:

> Felix Miata wrote:

>> I installed from factory right after rc1 was announced. YaST2 is still
>> quite broken in it. Instead of installing again, I want to update.
>> Someone a short time ago here posted
>> http://dev-loki.blogspot.com/2006/04/how-to-use-smart-with-suse-linux.html

> That was me.

>> and I thought I'd try that. Following the directions "we have to remove
>> the existing smart channels for 10.1", I got a lot of confirmation
>> requests, all of which I answered yes to. I couldn't figure out from the

> Yes, it asks for confirmation to remove the channels.

So was I correct in answering yes to each one?

>> man page how to do the upgrade, so I managed to install smart-gui using

> smart upgrade --update

That's better. Nearly 2 hours and hundreds of packages to update is more
expected.

> I just added that command on my blog entry (with the URL above).

>> rpm. I selected update all, but that took a very few minutes, updating
>> maybe a dozen or so packages.

> Try as above.

>> In /etc/smart/channels are the following:
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 187 Apr 13 22:24 packman-gwdg.channel
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 178 Apr 13 22:24 suse-apt-base-gwdg.channel
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 186 Apr 13 22:24 suse-apt-security-gwdg.channel
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 182 Apr 13 22:24 suse-apt-update-gwdg.channel
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 165 Apr 13 22:24 suser-guru-gwdg.channel

> .channel files in /etc/smart/channels/ are not the ones that are
> actually used by smart. Those are channel files included by the packager
> (me) and that are proposed for inclusion the first time you run smart.

> To show the list of actually configured channels, the command is
>   smart channel --show

Thanks!
-- 
"Have nothing to do with the fruitless deeds of darkness, but
rather expose them."                    Ephesians 5:11 NIV

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