Hello,
The other day one of my friends installed openSUSE 11.1/KDE 4.1.3 on his laptop and afterwards he updated it. He had to download about 1.0 GB of updates. And well, I thought that maybe we could have an update add-on DVD to avoid big updates after fresh installs. This wouldn't be an openSUSE respin or anything like that. People would download openSUSE as usual and then the update add-on DVD et voilà!
I have done some test but weren't a complete success... I made my own update add-on DVD by downloading the folders noarch, i586 and i686 from the update repository, then I used YaST Add-On Creater tool to create the DVD image and I tried it on a fresh install of openSUSE running on VirtualBox. Well, it updated a few packages but not everything, and re-ran it and nothing happened. No updates for me :-(
Any thoughts on this?
Greetings, Javier
Javier,
Product Creator and Add on Creator are hopelessly broken in 11.1. They both have several bugs that have not been fixed since it debuted. You are better off to simply copy the updates and burn a plain DVD and then add it as a source with higher priority then the other repo's. It seems these YaST modules have been deemed not worthy to fix in 11.1.
Javier Llorente wrote:
Hello,
The other day one of my friends installed openSUSE 11.1/KDE 4.1.3 on his laptop and afterwards he updated it. He had to download about 1.0 GB of updates. And well, I thought that maybe we could have an update add-on DVD to avoid big updates after fresh installs. This wouldn't be an openSUSE respin or anything like that. People would download openSUSE as usual and then the update add-on DVD et voilà!
I have done some test but weren't a complete success... I made my own update add-on DVD by downloading the folders noarch, i586 and i686 from the update repository, then I used YaST Add-On Creater tool to create the DVD image and I tried it on a fresh install of openSUSE running on VirtualBox. Well, it updated a few packages but not everything, and re-ran it and nothing happened. No updates for me :-(
Any thoughts on this?
Greetings, Javier
Tirsdag den 28. april 2009 01:37:32 skrev Javier Llorente:
The other day one of my friends installed openSUSE 11.1/KDE 4.1.3 on his laptop and afterwards he updated it. He had to download about 1.0 GB of updates. And well, I thought that maybe we could have an update add-on DVD to avoid big updates after fresh installs. This wouldn't be an openSUSE respin or anything like that. People would download openSUSE as usual and then the update add-on DVD et voilà!
The openSUSE 11.1 Reloaded Live CD with KDE 4.2 by Stephan Binner also includes the patches released so far: http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/Medias/images/iso/
I think if the installation is somewhat regular the 1 gig is probably the installed size and not the download size, or you're including unofficial updates from packman and whatnot in the number.
On Tuesday 28 April 2009 02:00:51 Dean Hilkewich wrote:
Javier,
Product Creator and Add on Creator are hopelessly broken in 11.1. They both have several bugs that have not been fixed since it debuted. You are better off to simply copy the updates and burn a plain DVD and then add it as a source with higher priority then the other repo's. It seems these YaST modules have been deemed not worthy to fix in 11.1.
Hi Dean,
Thanks for your response. I have made more tests... I have re-built the openSUSE Update DVD Addon and I got the same results;
1. YaST still gets a few packages from the Addon and the rest from the Internet.
2. I have given more priority to the Update Addon and still all the updates were downloaded from the Internet.
3. The last test I made was disabling the openSUSE Update repo. Then it installed the packages from the DVD, however I got the bad magic error when installing most packages "Subprocess failed. Error: RPM failed: error: unpacking of archive failed: cpio: Bad magic"
Is it because some updates have to be installed before others?
Greetings, Javier
Javier Llorente wrote:
Hello,
The other day one of my friends installed openSUSE 11.1/KDE 4.1.3 on his laptop and afterwards he updated it. He had to download about 1.0 GB of updates. And well, I thought that maybe we could have an update add-on DVD to avoid big updates after fresh installs. This wouldn't be an openSUSE respin or anything like that. People would download openSUSE as usual and then the update add-on DVD et voilà!
I have done some test but weren't a complete success... I made my own update add-on DVD by downloading the folders noarch, i586 and i686 from the update repository, then I used YaST Add-On Creater tool to create the DVD image and I tried it on a fresh install of openSUSE running on VirtualBox. Well, it updated a few packages but not everything, and re-ran it and nothing happened. No updates for me :-(
Any thoughts on this?
Greetings, Javier
On Tuesday 28 April 2009 10:27:58 Martin Schlander wrote:
Tirsdag den 28. april 2009 01:37:32 skrev Javier Llorente:
The other day one of my friends installed openSUSE 11.1/KDE 4.1.3 on his laptop and afterwards he updated it. He had to download about 1.0 GB of updates. And well, I thought that maybe we could have an update add-on DVD to avoid big updates after fresh installs. This wouldn't be an openSUSE respin or anything like that. People would download openSUSE as usual and then the update add-on DVD et voilà!
The openSUSE 11.1 Reloaded Live CD with KDE 4.2 by Stephan Binner also includes the patches released so far: http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/Medias/images/iso/
It is another possibility. But in this case I still prefer having an Update DVD rather than a reloaded Live CD. We could use it in more situations.
I think if the installation is somewhat regular the 1 gig is probably the installed size and not the download size, or you're including unofficial updates from packman and whatnot in the number.
Nope, it's almost 1 GB of updates without Packman updates on a machine with openSUSE 11.1 and KDE 4.1.3.
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