Adrian Schröter wrote: > Hi, > > we will most likely do a first big package manager update tomorrow. The > update > does include a large number of bugfixes and some first performance > improvements. > We will do for sure another update later, with further performance > optimizations and patch rpm support. > > You can test it already, when you add the following URL in the > YaST "Installation Sources" module and run the YaST "Online Update" module > afterwards: > > ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/aj/10.1-packagemanagement-update-test/ > > The online update will only update the package manager at the first run. The > second run will apply all other patches. > > You should also temporary disable your existing update source in this module, > since we know that the current repository meta data is broken. This will be > fixed with this update tomorrow as well. All existing updates are in the test > repository as well. > > You can find a README inside the directory above with more details how to > test > this. > > Please give us any kind of feedback. We know that we are the package manager > is not yet yet perfect, but this update should improve the situation a lot :) > > bye > adrian > >
Hi, just tested the workflow. Here goes the feedback/work done. The PC used was a P4, 2.4GHz, 512 RAM. Tests began at around 23:40 UTC, finished around 01:00 UTC. This in the case of you changing files during this timeframe. ( Work in accordance to the README file at ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/aj/10.1-packagemanagement-update-test/ ) As root: 1. * start yast2 installation source via the yast2 control center or directly as "yast2 inst_source". Add as additional software catalog: ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/aj/10.1-packagemanagement-update-test (or use one of the mirrors once they are updated) and then leave the module via "Finish". It will take some minutes to download data and setup the catalog. Added catalog, with Refresh&Enabled. Base catalog "No Refresh&Disabled". Clicked "Finish" and hang for maybe 20mn. Had to kill the process. Zen-updater was active. Anyhow, it detected 28 software updates. (libzypp update was there, though) So i shut zen-updater not to interfere. Added again the catalog, and now, it took some time, but "yast2 inst_source" closed nicely, apart saying the catalog was already added. 2. * start yast2 online update via the yast2 control center or directly as "yast2 online_update". The patch summary should show a couple of patches and select only the "libzypp update" (with a black mark). Press "Accept" to apply the update. It will take some time to download packages and install them. OK. just installed "libzypp update". Went fine after some time. It installed the following updates: Retrieving autoyast2-installation...OK Installing ./rpm/noarch/autoyast2-installation-2.13.65-0.2.noarch.rpm: "YaST2 Automated Installation" OK Retrieving libzypp...OK Installing ./rpm/i586/libzypp-1.1.0-1.11.i586.rpm: "Package, Patch, Pattern, and Product Management" OK Retrieving yast2-perl-bindings...OK Installing ./rpm/i586/yast2-perl-bindings-2.13.4-17.1.i586.rpm: "YaST2 - Perl Bindings" OK Retrieving yast2-ncurses...OK Installing ./rpm/i586/yast2-ncurses-2.13.36-1.2.i586.rpm: "YaST2 - Character Based User Interface" OK Retrieving autoyast2...OK Installing ./rpm/noarch/autoyast2-2.13.65-0.2.noarch.rpm: "YaST2 Automated Installation" OK Retrieving libzypp-zmd-backend...OK Installing ./rpm/i586/libzypp-zmd-backend-7.1.1.0-42.21.i586.rpm: "ZMD backend for Package, Patch, Pattern, and Product Management" OK Retrieving yast2-pkg-bindings...OK Installing ./rpm/i586/yast2-pkg-bindings-2.13.82-1.2.i586.rpm: "YaST2 Package Manager Access" OK Retrieving yast2-qt...OK Installing ./rpm/i586/yast2-qt-2.13.60-0.2.i586.rpm: "YaST2 - Graphical User Interface" OK Retrieving suseRegister...OK Installing ./rpm/noarch/suseRegister-1.0-63.3.noarch.rpm: "Registration tool" OK Retrieving yast2...OK Installing ./rpm/i586/yast2-2.13.61-0.2.i586.rpm: "YaST2 - Main Package" OK Retrieving zmd...OK Installing ./rpm/i586/zmd-7.1.1.0-39.15.i586.rpm: "Novell ZENworks Linux Management daemon" OK Retrieving zen-updater...OK Installing ./rpm/i586/zen-updater-7.1.0-51.13.i586.rpm: "Novell ZENworks Linux Management daemon" OK Retrieving yast2-online-update...OK Installing ./rpm/noarch/yast2-online-update-2.13.40-0.2.noarch.rpm: "YaST2 - Online Update (YOU)" OK Retrieving yast2-packager...OK Installing ./rpm/i586/yast2-packager-2.13.125-0.2.i586.rpm: "YaST2 - Package Library" OK Retrieving yast2-installation...OK Installing ./rpm/noarch/yast2-installation-2.13.119-1.2.noarch.rpm: "YaST2 - Installation Parts" OK Retrieving yast2-online-update-frontend...OK Installing ./rpm/noarch/yast2-online-update-frontend-2.13.40-0.2.noarch.rpm: "YaST2 - Online Update (YOU)" OK Installation finished. OK till now. 3. * You can now remove the software catalog you added in the first step. Use "yast2 inst_source" and delete the catalog. Done. But with an error message: "Cannot stop 'etc/init.d/novell-zmd' service". Just clicked OK. 4. * Restart zmd with "rczmd restart". Done. 5. * Restart the zen-updater applet on your desktop (it will stop itself since zmd gets stopped during the update). Zen-updater appeared OK, but without patches (using zen first before YOU as it is the move). Refreshed zen: 12 software updates awaiting, and *not* dhcp!! Installed them: "The update was successful" :-) 6. * Everything is set now. You can now install further patches with: - the desktop applet zen-updater - the command line tool rug (via rug patches;rug in -t patch <patchname>) - yast2 online_update zen-updater will inform you about new patches. As it's done with "zen-updater", let's see how behaves YOU: YOU had 3 more patches (around 00:50 UTC) not(?) seen by "zen-updater": postgresql security update (security) Everybody using iFolder should update (recommended) Fix "User Administration" not working (recommended) Installed, OK. After more than an hour everything seems to be running fine. I cross-checked again zen vs YOU: no updates at this moment. Did not try rug. If i can, will try tomorrow, as it's a bit late, on a laptop. Hope the feedback can provide useful info. Final word: did not bugzillaed or CC as the intuit was just to provide feedback and follow the workflow. The system seems to run nicely :-) Thanks :-) Kind Regards, PatrickM --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
