Hi, Slight problem here. I had a friend download the updates from a suse mirror. I copied the updates to a local directory and tried to run YOU. I turned off the YAST@_LOADFTPSERVER and added the local directory to /etc/youservers but when I try to run the update I get the message: "Patch information retrieval failed." "error Unable to read the directory './i386/update/9.1/patches'." Any thoughts?
Onsdag 27 oktober 2004 21:10 kvad Xenos Katawin:
Hi,
Slight problem here. I had a friend download the updates from a suse mirror. I copied the updates to a local directory and tried to run YOU. I turned off the YAST@_LOADFTPSERVER and added the local directory to /etc/youservers but when I try to run the update I get the message:
"Patch information retrieval failed." "error Unable to read the directory './i386/update/9.1/patches'."
Any thoughts?
Good day Xenos, do you have a directory ./i386/update/9.1/patches/ in your local update directory? One can not simply copy the RPM packages and nothing else. There needs to be a certain directory structure arranging patch descriptions and RPM packages in a certain way. Best regards Johnny :o)
The Wednesday 2004-10-27 at 22:10 +0300, Xenos wrote:
Slight problem here. I had a friend download the updates from a suse mirror. I copied the updates to a local directory and tried to run YOU. I turned off the YAST@_LOADFTPSERVER and added the local directory to /etc/youservers but when I try to run the update I get the message:
"Patch information retrieval failed." "error Unable to read the directory './i386/update/9.1/patches'."
The files have to be placed in file structure similar to the ftp server. There is documentation around, search for creating patch CD, or local YOU mirror. For example, under the directory you point YOU to, must exist: ./i386/update/9.1/patches ./i386/update/9.1/rpm/i586 ./i386/update/9.1/rpm/noarch etc. If you just downloaded the rpm files, but you do have a network connection, albeight slow, copy them to: /var/lib/YaST2/you/mnt/i386/update/9.1/rpm/i586/ /var/lib/YaST2/you/mnt/i386/update/9.1/rpm/noarch/ Then, use YOU normally (remote server). YOU will pick the files it need from the ftp server, but those that you copied will simply use the local copy instead. -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson
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Carlos E. R.
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Johnny Ernst Nielsen
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Xenos Katawin