Marcus Meissner <meissner@suse.de> writes:

On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 01:15:28PM -0400, Mark Gray wrote:

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While a brief bout of googling revealed how to add a local update mirror after install using rug, I could find no mention of how to specify a local mirror for updates during the initial install of the boxed set of SUSE-10.1. With a lot of computers to install on, this would be most useful, especially since doing an update during the install seems to be the cleanest way to fix 10.1's update bug.

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(My apologies if this is a FAQ as I have been too busy to read mailing lists lately.)

During Installation its quite difficult to change and not easily possible (i tried by changing /etc/hosts in the background to my testmachine). (suseRegister pushes the urls pretty directly into yast)

Later it is possible.

In 10.2 it will be a bit easier (in 10.2 alpha you can edit /etc/suse_register.conf to set the urls explicitly).

I may give Alpha 3 (and those following) a try. Right now I am going to use a perl script I wrote which does a: rpm -qa --queryformat '%{NAME} %{VERSION}\n' and then performs a rpm -Uvh on all the rpm's in my mirror which do not match the installed version. Much faster and easier to do than monkey about with zen-updater or yast online_update. (I will post the script if anyone is interested (but since it has to run as root, I would suggest it only be used by people who know enough perl to write their own script :)) -- 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