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): - 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? What if the host must be changed, can I re-register another host and use the new one then? - can I download packages for ppc from an i586 or x86_64 host? Otherwise this wouldn't help our SLES servers having no inet connection... cu, Frank -- Dipl.-Inform. Frank Steiner Web: http://www.bio.ifi.lmu.de/~steiner/ Lehrstuhl f. Bioinformatik Mail: http://www.bio.ifi.lmu.de/~steiner/m/ LMU, Amalienstr. 17 Phone: +49 89 2180-4049 80333 Muenchen, Germany Fax: +49 89 2180-99-4049 * Rekursion kann man erst verstehen, wenn man Rekursion verstanden hat. *