Thank you Joe, your answer makes it clear to me. I often wished, "official" information would be so clear and easy to understand... Daniel On Friday 29 December 2006 01:47, Joe Morris (NTM) wrote:
Daniel Bauer wrote:
Now I wonder about the differences in the update tools: there is "online update" in Yast and the orange exclamation mark in the control bar.
In 10.2, there are 2 similar but very different update programs. One is opensuse updater, which is a lightweight update program which ONLY looks for security updates. The other is zen-updater, which is the heavyweight check for all possible updates in all your configured repositories updater. They serve different purposes. Some folks only want to be notified when there is a security update (and will check and update other packages manually), while some want to keep their system completely up to date (i.e. bleeding edge). There is another program included to only start one OR the other, run-updater. It is controlled by a sysconfig variable. As with many things, you get full control and get to choose which you prefer. HTH.
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