working, it is not like I have had a chance to explore and see what it does and sort out all the nifty new locations. That will only be possible after the basic update stuff works. So, the upgrade instructions must tell where the updates are to be gotten from. Andreas told this. He also said to remove his update source, which I did and which is still the case. The latest info (email today in this list) did not suggest any specific update source was needed.
Again, please wait some days for the mirrors to catch up first.
Ciao, Marcus
Marcus, I can sense that tempers are starting to fray over this massive cock-up by a brain giant to a major Linux distro and from which it will take quite some time to recover.
It is time to look at this situation more rationally and find a scheme to get it fixed as best "we" can.
I can see that there are 2 types of SuSE 10.1 users who are affected by this: 1) those who are about to install 10.1 and 2) those who already have it installed.
For those who are about to install it, when they do install it is there a mechanism set up which will upgrade the zmd application when the installation process calls home for any updates?
Yes. After the "Online Update Configuration" process in the Installation workflow there is the change to run "Online Update". This Online Update will fetch the update if the network and the remote server is setup correctly. No other fixes are necessary if this is done.
For those of us who already have 10.1 installed and cannot get the bloody zmd working, I ask these 2 questions:
a) would it help if I reinstall 10.1 - and if I do will the zmd be auto-updated on the first call "home"? or if I do re-install would I be better off either downloading libzypp 1.1.0-1.11 manually and installing it or doing the "test a)" which Andreas adkes? and
Well, reinstalling 10.1 is too drastic I think. It would work if correctly setup, as described above. I would strongly suggest ot first try to install it via "YaST Online Update".
b) I, for one, would be most happy to download a new copy of the ISO CD disc containing the new libzypp PLUS ANY ASSOCIATED fixed files and then burning a new DVD using this new ISO (with the new, fixed files) and re-install 10.1. Can such a new ISO disc be created and put up for download?
This would be pretty much work I guess. I dont know if this is possible. Ciao, Marcus -- Check the headers for your unsubscription address For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq@suse.com