Re: YUP - was [Discontinued SUSE Linux Distribution: 9.2]

I'm only running SuSE 9.2 But AAMOI does yup support any encryption protocols for the file transfer process Marcus? Keith ------------------------------------------------------------ http://www.karsites.net http://www.raised-from-the-dead.org.uk This email address is challenge-response protected with http://www.tmda.net ------------------------------------------------------------ On Thu, 21 Sep 2006, Marcus Meissner wrote:

To: Frank Steiner From: Marcus Meissner Subject: Re: [suse-security] Re: [Discontinued SUSE Linux Distribution: 9.2]

On Thu, Sep 21, 2006 at 12:49:45PM +0200, Frank Steiner wrote:

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Marcus Meissner wrote

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This is what SLES and SLED are for...

Just that SLES (don't know about SLED) doesn't provide me any updates for my servers that have (due to sensible data hosted on them) no access to the internet. And since *all* our IBM pSeries are configured that way, there is not even a host that could make use of your curl-solution because no one is outside the firewall and has access.

And no, I'm not paying even more money for a zen-whatever software to get downloads, I've already paid enough for SLES itself, haven't I?

This change of download policy is indeed such a major drawback that we do consider switching to another distribution (apart from the money) now. First you get promised 5 years of upgrade, but no one tells you "but only if each and every server running SLES can download the updates by itself from the internet".

I would guess we are not the only organization that is really pi*** off by such a new policy and that will drop SLES for that reason.

I am aware of this oversight and I do not like it either.

We offer now a script solution for this called "yup", http://support.novell.com/techcenter/psdb/0d00854c9f7f33f7a225f6d227c03de4.h... which you can use to mirror the updates to a local machine.

Ciao, Marcus

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