The Monday 2003-12-29 at 17:55 -0500, nmayotte@charter.net wrote:
I've been looking at the YOU auto updates in suse 8.2, and I'd like to make it so that my machine will automatically download updates from a server I specify (another one of my computers). Is this possible? I think it would work if I configure YAST2_LOADFTPSERVER="no" in the file /etc/sysconfig/onlineupdate on the client machine. Then I'd have to like comment out all the entries in /var/lib/yast2/you/youservers (I'm assuming /etc/suseservers is obsolete since there is no reference to it in /etc/sysconfig/onlineupdate) and then add my server to /etc/youservers.
Sorry, I don't remember, but it is possible O:-)
And on the server side. Do I just have to have a certain directory for the updates, does there have to be a certain tree format
Yes - from the i386 part onwards (i386 included).
or can I just point the client to ftp://ftp.myserver.com/onlineupdates (or whatever I name the direcory). Also, would this work for a url as well or does it have to be ftp?
I did it for 7.3 and 8.1. I used '/srv/ftp/pub/suseupdate/i386/update/8.1/' - can't be more detailed, because I removed the contents, but below that the structure is the same as you find in '/var/lib/YaST2/you/mnt/i386/update/8.2/', ie: /var/lib/YaST2/you/mnt/i386/update/8.2/ |-- patches |-- rpm | |-- i586 | `-- noarch `-- scripts There is one more detail: you can use every thing on that 'you' tree, except 'patches/*' - that directory you have to get from the external ftp server you use. You modifies the files there, I think to know what is installed or something. -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson