using yast2 to update packages in 8.0
I just updated (clean install) to 8.0. I am trying to figure how to do some things i used to do with yast in previous versions with yast2 now. Since I have a slow link, i am in the habbit of downloading the complete update tree for my distribution, then using yast to update the packages from the local hard drive. On my fresh install of 8.0 I have not been able to do this. I go to yast2 online update and select an installation source of hard disk under the expert button and give it the full path to the local mirror of the updated SuSE packages. When i then try to update, I get several lines like "Could not copy patch-information" then a box stating "Cannot get the patches from the server. Try another SuSE FTP/HTTP server." I have been able to update some packages via ftp. I also took a look at the support database and was not able to find a similar issue (there was a 7.3 issue of a missing update.inf file, but this does exist). Is it possible to update individual packages that are stored on a local hard drive in the same way it was done in yast1? The options available seem to indicate this can be done, but I have not been able to get it to work yet. -david
* David <suse-usr@bluescat.org> [Apr 29. 2002 14:52]:
Since I have a slow link, i am in the habbit of downloading the complete update tree for my distribution, then using yast to update the packages from the local hard drive. On my fresh install of 8.0 I have not been
Try changing the installationmedium to that directory you downloaded to and do it not with YOU but just with update. -- Mads Martin Jørgensen, http://mmj.dk "Why make things difficult, when it is possible to make them cryptic and totally illogic, with just a little bit more effort?" -- A. P. J.
I suspected that this doesn't work. (Sounded like something I had tried already). I noticed that David and Rachel has confirmed my suspicions. Is there a way of getting SuSE to take note of this issue? I get the impression that emails to feedback only get an "automated" response about the benefits of yast2 without really listening to what is being said. eddie On Monday 29 April 2002 1:55 pm, Mads Martin Jørgensen wrote:
* David <suse-usr@bluescat.org> [Apr 29. 2002 14:52]:
Since I have a slow link, i am in the habbit of downloading the complete update tree for my distribution, then using yast to update the packages from the local hard drive. On my fresh install of 8.0 I have not been
Try changing the installationmedium to that directory you downloaded to and do it not with YOU but just with update.
* Eddie Howson <eddie@cs.rhul.ac.uk> [Apr 29. 2002 15:58]:
there a way of getting SuSE to take note of this issue? I get the impression that emails to feedback only get an "automated" response about the benefits
feedback@suse.de gets read! I often get a mail from feedback@suse.de when it's touching an area I've to do with. -- Mads Martin Jørgensen, http://mmj.dk "Why make things difficult, when it is possible to make them cryptic and totally illogic, with just a little bit more effort?" -- A. P. J.
David wrote:
Is it possible to update individual packages that are stored on a local hard drive in the same way it was done in yast1? The options available seem to indicate this can be done, but I have not been able to get it to work yet.
I do the same thing - mirror the updates from gwdg.de every week for each version of SuSE we have installed. I've not found a way to do it in Yast2 - the YOU doesn't seem satisfactory to me, not giving me any control or ability to install other packages - but kpackage, once I got the hang of how to use it properly, seems to be an adequate alternative. At the moment I'm still playing with SuSE 8 in a VMWare Linux guest instance running on our 7.3 box, which is waiting for a quiet time for us to nuke and reinstall it. -- Rachel
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