On Wednesday 11 July 2007 12:10, Donald D Henson wrote: ..... > > The shortest advice for Zenworks/Rug is remove them from your system and > > use YaST, zypper and opensuseupdater. > > > > The Zenworks/Rug is somewhat bad solution for openSUSE as it is meant for > > automatic updates from carefully maintained repository, like in > > enterprises, where any update is already tested to work with current > > system, before being provided trough repository. > > > > In openSUSE case carefully tested is only update repository that is > > covered with opensuseupdater. The rest of official openSUSE repositories > > is static, they do not change after they are published. > > > > That is not always the case with additional (unofficial) repositories > > that can be used, but with some experience in handling packages from > > those repositories in case that YaST reports dependency problems, IMHO > > they are not meant for automatic updates, nor for inexperienced users. > > > > See also: > > http://en.opensuse.org/yast > > http://en.opensuse.org/Zypper > > http://en.opensuse.org/KDE_Updater_Applet > > and of course > > I'm trying your advice, i.e. removing zen and rug and using Smart. It' > taking me awhile to figure out how to use it but I have successfully > added a couple of channels. I, in fact, used Smart to remove rug. Now > I'm waiting for an "interesting" update to see how that works. > > Thanks to all for some apparently good advice.
I would not advise anybody to use Smart in the moment he is discovering openSUSE distribution. It is not bad tool, but one has to be experienced user to avoid trouble using it. It works similar to Zenupdater, ie. expects well tested repositories without dependency conflicts, otherwise user has to resolve them. For beginners is YaST for installation and opensuseupdater, as notifier, that is calling YOU (YaST Online Update), that will perform actual update. From repositories in the very beginning I would limit installations to official opensuse repositories plus update repository. Further, additional repositories listed in: http://en.opensuse.org/Additional_YaST_Package_Repositories should be used for single package installation, not as general update solution, otherwise very soon there will be a lot of dependency conflicts that is not trivial to resolve. -- Regards, Rajko. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
