Hi,
On Sat, 18 Feb 2006, Martin Schlander wrote:
On Saturday 18 February 2006 14:14, Karl Lattimer wrote:
now I'm using opensuse 10.1
Could someone please advise what is the correct or best procedure to
update opensuse 10.1 using an internet service with working mirrors.
First of all - opensuse is the project, suse linux is the distro. This cannot
be repeated too often.
Secondly - SuSE distinguishes between security updates and "normal" package
updates. What you're trying to do is getting security updates - and none
exist for beta3 - I'm not sure if security update mirrors exist for beta4.
If what you're looking for is package updates you want too add Factory (I
believe the Fedora-project equivalent is called Rawhide) as a source to YaST
- and update the packages with the yast software management module.
For instance..
http://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/opensuse/distribution/SL-OSS-factory/inst-source/
But maybe you should consider getting beta4 which will be announced later
today.
Factory is in the state of beta4 currently.
But users have to consider this (from SL-10.1-beta4/README.IMPORTANT.txt):
Beta4 is really for the adventureous experts and not for anybody
without a good Linux experience:
* The CD 1 needs to remain in the cd drive after installing from
it. Do not remove it during the reboot and wait for YaST to request
CD 2.
Otherwise the installation of packages from CD 2-5 will fail
afterwards.
* Due to the integration of the new package manager which is not
complete, note the following non working pieces:
o Only a fresh installation is supported. Update from a previous
installation is not working!
o ncurses installation is not supported right now
o Some statistics do not work, e.g. you see "Size of packages to
install: 0" - or "Number of packages to install: 0", or "Software:
Default system (0)".
o The graphical package manager frontend has only a limited list of
"views", currently you get a list of all the packages and can only
search in them.
o Only adding of selections works. If you want to remove a
selection, remove all packages in that selection and run the
resolver manually with the "Check" button.
o Language dependend packages are not handled correctly. This
results in the installation of one package-$lang package but not
necessarily the one for the languages asked for.
o It is not possible to abort installation while installing
packages.
o Network Installations: smb/cifs does not work, http, nfs and ftp
should work.
* The partitioning proposal looks broken in some cases.
* There are no Release Notes shown - and the download of them fails.
Summing up: The installer is in a rather bad shape, only INSTALLATION
is supported. The rest of the system should be stable.
Cheers -e
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Eberhard Moenkeberg ([EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED])
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