On Sun, 2005-11-06 at 21:04 +0100, Joachim Schrod wrote:
Ken Schneider wrote:
On Sun, 2005-11-06 at 14:47 +0100, Joachim Schrod wrote:
When I have two YAST repositories (e.g., SUSE's and Packman) and I want to get online updates from both, how do I configure that?
You are confusing "Online Update" offered only by SuSE with newer packages offered by third party repos.
No, I don't confuse that, believe me. :-)
I asked if there is a way to get "Online Update" also for other repositories and I meant that. I don't want to select available packages manually, that would be 90s-style update management and is not appropriate for today.
The situation: I have installed packages both from the SUSE DVD and from other sources. I get automated update management support for the SUSE packages by online_update. I don't get it for the other sources, but I want it for these packages as well.
That's because Online_Update will only provide patches for SuSE supplied packages -not- packman or any other repos. This is the part you don't understand.
I.e., when there are updates for Packman or usr-local-bin or Guru packages, I want to get notified and want to be able to install them with one command.
I also want to do that for a whole set of computers, and not just for one. Since I pay for my traffic by volume, downloads shall happen only once. Patch rpms should be supported, if possible, for the same reason.
As James Ogley pointed out already, this is not possible with online_update. (Since James is the maintainer of usr-local-bin, I trust him fully on that answer. :-)
Then why don't you understand that Online_Update won't do what you want it to?
This means I will have to decide if I go with apt or with smart. -- apt has the advantage that I know it from Debian. But I have not seen apticron up to now, which I use for Debian systems. So it might not be as convenient, I might need to put some work in it. -- smart has the advantage that SUSE seems to be going down that road. So it's a better investment of time for the long term.
I wanted to postpone that decision and use online_update in the mean time; but I think that's not possible and I have to decide it now.
I would get involved in using smart as it will be the package manager of choice soon and support third party repos. -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998