I have a work around to this problem: If you update your system with a patch using RPM -U ..., you need to fool YaST2 into thinking it was installed. Problem: Performing YaST2 Online Update, Internet connection times out before all patches downloaded. You want to install the the rpms that you got before you lost the internet connection but YaST2 Online Update thinks it needs to re-download all those patches again. example: if you had gone ahead and performed an upgrade by hand of Sax2: cd /var/lib/YaST/patches/i386/update/7.2/x1 rpm -U sax2.rpm you need to fool YaST2 Online Update into thinking it has installed the patch as it is not smart enough to look at the RPM database. cd /var/lib/YaST/patches/i386/update/7.2/patches mv sax2-1.20010901.new sax2-1.20010901.installed the next time your run YaST2 Online Update it will think that it has already installed the patch for Sax2, even though you did it yourself. Sean

From: Ben Rosenberg To: SLE Subject: Re: [SLE] SuSE Online Update not looking at RPM database Date: Mon, 3 Sep 2001 01:15:50 -0700

Well, since this has been a big topic as of late. I remind people that YOU's 1st version is in 7.2..so don't expect it to be perfect. If you want a bug fixed like this submit the bug.

Hey LenZ..anyone. Is there a fix coming down the pipe for this. I've counted at least 15 people who have mentioned this.

* Seán Ó Ceallaigh (sean0cea11aigh_@hotmail.com) [010903 01:08]: ->I have a problem with SuSE Online Update using Yast2 and ->SuSE version 7.2. I have installed by hand ( RPM -U ... ) several patches ->from the SuSE ftp site. However, when I run Yast2's online ->update from the Yast2 control center, it tells me that I need to ->download and install those very same patches!? It even says ->that the version on disk is the same as the version on the ftp ->site and it still says I need to update with that patch? What gives? ->Shouldn't Yast2 be comparing the patches in the SuSE ftp site ->with the current RPM database? -> ->Thanks, -> ->Sean -> ->_________________________________________________________________ ->Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp -> -> ->-- ->To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com ->For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com -> ->Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/support/faq and the ->archives at http://lists.suse.com ->

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