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From: "Tobias Burnus"
If I understand it correctly it simply checks the FTP-Server on ${ftp.suse.com/pub/suse}/${platform}/update/${version} ^^^ or mirror? ^^^ i386 ^^^- 7.1
If you look at ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/7.1/ there is a file called ./patches/ftp-1 which seems to describe updates: Shortdescription.german : Willkommen zum SuSE Patch Update Longdescription.english: Welcome to SuSE Patch Update. This is only an info patch which shows the functionality of the patch update.
hhmmm ... seems that I'ill keep the old fashion way =)
Moreover you can find now the ${package-name}_{de,en}.info files all over the place which contain some information (packagename, file, version, size, date, source, security update: Yes/no, update/change description).
yeah, that is good.
BTW: Why is there no _{en/de}.info file for xemacs in update/7.1/e2/ ?
Now there is, check again =) /pub/suse/i386/update/7.1/e2/xemacs-21.1.14-0.i386_en.info /pub/suse/i386/update/7.1/e2/xemacs-el-21.1.14-0.i386_en.info (and _de files too)
I think this is the same as in YaST 1 and uses /etc/permissions.easy /etc/permissions.secure /etc/permissions.paranoid Those presently set the rights of several files (suid bits, /dev/ rights, mount user or nouser etc.) I don't think that that changed much.
ok, i'll keep it on paranoid, then i'll change it to /etc/permissions.sick eheh
Well you probably have to buy SuSE 7.1 (or wait until it gets leased as FTP version) until you see it. The latter doesn't look that new (I don't know 7.0's YaST2, but YaST1 has it).
I'll buy it ... by the way, since I mailed the support (info@suse.com ?) and had no reply, let me ask here, will my usb cd writer (hp8210e/USB) work with kernel 2.4?
The former seems to make it easier (with GnuPG signed RPMs :-) than browsing around with yast (I never did before I simply used wget and rpm ;-). There is also autorpm which automates it even more (if you think rpm{new/saved} is no harm ;-)
until now I also just used rpm (ok, some times kpackage too i confess eheh) Thanks for the tips [ ]'s bacano