You could well be right. I plan to try opensuseupdater as well. Donald D. Henson, Managing Director West El Paso Information Network The "Non-Initiation of Force Principle" Rules
Sloan wrote: > Yikes, I thought the answer was not to switch to smart, but rather to > use the open suse updater which comes on the 10.2 install disks. The > "enterprise" updater is admittedly problematic for most users, but the > "opensuse" updater works well. > > Joe > > Donald D Henson wrote: > >> 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. >> >> Donald D. Henson, Managing Director >> West El Paso Information Network >> The "Non-Initiation of Force Principle" Rules >> >> >> >> >> Rajko M. wrote: >> >> >>> On Tuesday 10 July 2007 10:53, Donald D Henson wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>>> Another piece of the puzzle. I discovered an applet, opensuseupdater, >>>> that appears to work. At least it found and installed an update. Is this >>>> part of the total system? >>>> >>>> Donald D. Henson, Managing Director >>>> West El Paso Information Network >>>> The "Non-Initiation of Force Principle" Rules >>>> >>>> Donald D Henson wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>>> There are two icons in my toolbar, Install Software and Update Software. >>>>> These icons are apparently related to Novell Zenworks and something >>>>> called Rug, neither of which I understand. I can find very little "how >>>>> to" info on either. What technical info I can find tends to be arguments >>>>> about whether Zenworks/Rug is a step forward or a step backward. Under >>>>> the circumstances, I think my confusion is reasonable. >>>>> >>>>> Would anyone out there care to give me a quick synopsis of Zenworks/Rug >>>>> and some simple rules on how to use them? A Zenworks/Rug for Dummies >>>>> online article would also be helpful. >>>>> >>>>> Thanks. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>> 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 >>> >>> >>> >>> >> >> > > >
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