Thank you Joe, your answer makes it clear to me. I often wished, "official" information would be so clear and easy to understand...
Daniel On Friday 29 December 2006 01:47, Joe Morris (NTM) wrote: > Daniel Bauer wrote: > > Now I wonder about the differences in the update tools: there is "online > > update" in Yast and the orange exclamation mark in the control bar. > > In 10.2, there are 2 similar but very different update programs. One is > opensuse updater, which is a lightweight update program which ONLY looks > for security updates. The other is zen-updater, which is the > heavyweight check for all possible updates in all your configured > repositories updater. They serve different purposes. Some folks only > want to be notified when there is a security update (and will check and > update other packages manually), while some want to keep their system > completely up to date (i.e. bleeding edge). There is another program > included to only start one OR the other, run-updater. It is controlled > by a sysconfig variable. As with many things, you get full control and > get to choose which you prefer. HTH. > > -- > Joe Morris > Registered Linux user 231871 running openSUSE 10.2 x86_64 -- Daniel Bauer photographer Basel Switzerland professional photography: http://www.daniel-bauer.com Madagascar special: http://www.sanic.ch -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
