On Thursday 10 March 2005 00:47, Greg Wallace wrote:
On Monday, March 07, 2005 @ 4:34 AM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
The Monday 2005-03-07 at 04:34 -0600, Darryl Gregorash wrote:
ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/discontinued/
I tried that site and that exact path (that's the only one I tired),
and
that didn't work. I had used that server most of the time for my YOU processing. Maybe there's some additional software in place on the
regular
The actual path you would need to use is <blahblah>/discontinued/<arch>/updates/<version>/
Are you sure? I looked at the path YOU in my 9.1 uses, and the "<arch>/updates/<version>/" is not there. YOU knows and expects to add that part. . . (snip) . -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson
Carlos:
I looked at the paths on ftp.suse.com and it looks like the only difference between the regular update folder and the discontinued folder is the addition of that "discontinued" folder in the path. I. e., --
ftp.suse.com/pub/SuSE/i386/update
looks just like
ftp.suse.com/pub/SuSE/discontinued/i386/update
with the exception that after update, there is no longer an 8.1 node on
non-discontinued path and it shows up in the discontinued path. So, under YOU under "choice of installation source", I tried chose "expert" and
On Wednesday, March 09, 2009 @ 2:54 PM, Anders Johansen wrote: the tried
--
*) For type of URL: -- FTP *) For Directory path, each of the following -- discontinued discontinued/i386 discontinued/i386/update discontinued/i386/update/8.1 discontinued/i386/update/8.1/patches
None worked, so that makes me think that maybe you just can't use YOU on the discontinued releases(?).
Sure you can.
Have a look at the file /var/adm/YaST/ProdDB/prod_00000001 (or whatever the
file is called that you have in the ProdDB directory) and look for the line
that starts with =YouPath:
Take the path you have on the ftp server, cut off what you see in YouPath, and put the remaining bit in the Directory Path input in YOU.
I've even updated an old 7.x machine that way (albeit a SLES7)
If it still doesn't work, try looking in /var/log/YaST2/y2log for any revealing error messages
BINGO!! That worked perfectly. I even got it on the first try. All I had to do was add obsolete/ to the front of the path following =YouPath:. It even worked on the first try! The file and it's directory location were exactly as you stated above. So, at least I can recover all of the patches I currently have if I have a major disk failure before I get to the task of upgrading my system. Thanks a lot for the help! Yours truly, Greg Wallace