When I installed beta 9 I recall some update mirror being added automatically at some point in the setup routine. Of course the mirror was either broken or down so I removed it somehow. I can't recall how... Anyway, so now wondering how I might download and install delta patches I go into YAST online update and there is just an empty list with no patches. There is now no option in YAST to choose an update mirror, the Online Update Setup module simply allows me to schedule an update, not select a mirror or anything similar. This raises a few issues that were mentioned briefly in the status meeting. Firstly if the mechanism is now to add a single mirror at installation then what happens if that mirror is down/broken ( as mine was on install ) or not synched? Also, why is there no clear mechanism for configuring update options by adding or selecting an alternative online udpate mirror? What was wrong with the previous method allowing the user to be able to select his/her update source when he/she started YOU? Finally, *how* on earth do I add a mirror for YOU? Regards G
Graham Anderson <graham.anderson@gmail.com> writes:
This raises a few issues that were mentioned briefly in the status meeting. Firstly if the mechanism is now to add a single mirror at installation then what happens if that mirror is down/broken ( as mine was on install ) or not synched? Also, why is there no clear mechanism for configuring update options by adding or selecting an alternative online udpate mirror? What was wrong with the previous method allowing the user to be able to select his/her update source when he/she started YOU? Finally, *how* on earth do I add a mirror for YOU?
Since we handle patches the same way as packages in an integrated view now with the new package manager library, a few things have changed. Support for mirrors in a way as YOU did is not there anymore - but now added to the feature list, we need something like that. As a bandaid: You can run suseRegister manually and will get a new mirror setup. Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, aj@suse.de, http://www.suse.de/~aj/ SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126
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