On Thu, Sep 21, 2006 at 02:54:16PM +0200, Frank Steiner wrote:
Marcus Meissner wrote
I am aware of this oversight and I do not like it either.
I know you care about it from your mails on suse-linux-e...
We offer now a script solution for this called "yup", http://support.novell.com/techcenter/psdb/0d00854c9f7f33f7a225f6d227c03de4.h... which you can use to mirror the updates to a local machine.
I guess this is basically your script you posted to the mailinglist? I'm not sure about two things (and I can't test at the moment):
It has been enhanced by Eberhard Moenkeberg and Matthias Eckermann.
- can I download packages from a non-sles host, say a SuSE 10.1 host? Looks like I have to register a host at Novell with some values from /etc/zmd/. Can I do that with a 10.1 host and use this one as download host?
You can "suse_register" on 10.1, however you need to specify the -p product option. I am not sure what exactly to pass there, I think the "Name" string returned by "rug products" on the SLES 10 machine.
What if the host must be changed, can I re-register another host and use the new one then?
? In the end this circumvents our NCC restrictions to some degree. You can run above suse_register call again.
- can I download packages for ppc from an i586 or x86_64 host?
Yes.
Otherwise this wouldn't help our SLES servers having no inet connection...
Ciao, Marcus