On Tue, Jul 24, 2007 at 10:56:11AM +0200, Marcus Meissner wrote:
> >  * There is a Online Update configuration in Yast available but after
> >    selecting "configure later" it just terminates
> 
> If you had selected "Configure now" (or whatever english is there)
> the code would have added an update mirror.

Mmh, OK, but I don't want to register myself (the help in the left strip
mentions that I register by following "Configure now") and I'm sure this
is true for most other users as well!
 
> > Shame on you! Normally I would report this as bug (at least against the
> > website) but my last experiences with Novell was that I need to register
> > first and that I even have to specify my (snail) mail address. I will
> > not do so and try to ignore all Suse related bugs that's why (in Debian
> > I report everything, often provide patches but OpenSuse, oh no ...).
> 
> Sorry to have you disappointed.

Security updates are really important, they should not be hidden! I
really wonder why even Google doesn't help with such a basic topic.

The Debian webteam discussed recently whether the security announcements
(which also contains the URLs) could be removed from the top level page
and I agreed on it. Now I know it better, they belong to it.

How many clicks are necessary to find this information on
http://de.opensuse.org? At least 2 ...
 
> A valid update URL for instance is:
>       http://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/suse/update/10.2/

Thanks.
 
> (its not under /pub/opensuse/ for older products).

Mmh, it's not even possible to add a symbolic link from opensuse/?

Jens
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