Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (723 mails)

["Ulrich Windl" <ulrich.windl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 3 Mar 2006 at 9:30, Andreas Jaeger wrote:

> Peter Czanik <pczanik@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
[...]
> > In this case, how can I use the factory tree, if I installed from the CD?
> > cd /mnt/factory/inst-source/suse/ppc/
> > rpm -Fvh yast* z* libzypp*
> > and I have a package manager working with factory? Bye,
> 
> Yes, correct!

This brings up one question: I have forces an update from SL 9.0 to 9.2 that way, 
and everything is fine, only YOU still looks for Updates to 9.0...
Now the question is: How is YaST's product database properly updated to the new 
release?

Finally a performance remark: It seems when trying an update to many packages 
(like "*.rpm"), rpm is much slower (needs a lot of RAM?) as compared to something 
like "echo *.rpm |xargs -n 10 rpm ....". Yes, I know there's a semantic 
difference, so you could try reordering the input list until every package is in. 
Maybe you can have the same effect with --nodeps...

Regards,
Ulrich