Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3605 mails)

["Greg Wallace" <gregwallace@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I have been following the threads concerning software updating on 10.1 and
just wanted to relay my experiences.  My setup is very lowbrow in the sense
that I have never installed any software other than what was available
directly from YaST, with the exception of a 3rd party disaster recovery
system and an Oracle server, both of which require manual installs of
upgrades.  I have no idea if the new updater software is even attempting to
operate on my machine because it has never shown that there were updates
waiting to be installed (since I installed 10.1 a week or more ago).  Maybe
it's not configured correctly (if the term "correctly" can even be applied
to this tool, based on the horror stories I keep reading about it on this
list).  So, what I have been doing is simply launching YOU once a day to
check on updates.  Up until yesterday, there were never any available.
However, both yesterday and today there were multiple patches available and
they all installed seamlessly.  I'm hoping the same will be the case when
the Zen problem is finally taken care of (then I'll see if I can get this
new susewatcher, or whatever it's called, to work).
  So, for anyone sitting out there that has shied away from updating due to
all of the problems others are experiencing, you might just try launching
YOU and seeing how it works for you.  It is true that it is now extremely
slow, as I understand it because of the interference being run on it by Zen,
etc., but it does still function, at least for my setup.

Greg Wallace



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