In Yast2, there is a menu option to apply a "Patch Update CD". Simply downloading the current updates from SuSE's website and placing them on a CD does not, however, appear to be sufficient to get it recognized as a Patch Update CD. Searching around in the sdb and online documents, I did not immediately see any notes on how to prepare a CD that would be recognized as a patch update CD. Can someone point me to documentation on how to do this, or perhaps explain it in a response to the list? In case it makes a difference, I'm runing 7.3/i386. Thanks, --Bob Drzyzgula
On Tue, Feb 26, 2002 at 08:25:43AM -0500, Bob Drzyzgula wrote:
In Yast2, there is a menu option to apply a "Patch Update CD". Simply downloading the current updates from SuSE's website and placing them on a CD does not, however, appear to be sufficient to get it recognized as a Patch Update CD. Searching around in the sdb and online documents, I did not immediately see any notes on how to prepare a CD that would be recognized as a patch update CD. Can someone point me to documentation on how to do this, or perhaps explain it in a response to the list?
In case it makes a difference, I'm runing 7.3/i386.
Thanks, --Bob Drzyzgula
From what I understand, that option is for special CDs that you order from SuSE, mostly for the enterprise versions of their OS. I could be wrong so maybe someday that knows for sure can say.
Regards, Keith -- LPIC-2, MCSE, N+ wielder of vi(m), an ancient, dangerous and powerful magic free your mind, and your OS will follow
Hi Bob, I don't know if what I am doing is strictly legal (copyright), but it works for me. I am using wget to download ALL the patches, except the sources, this is why I exclude zq1. The following script gets the updates for the installed version of Suse Linux for the machine it runs on. SubDir=$(grep VERSION /etc/SuSE-release | awk '{print $3}') LogDir=/$HOSTNAME/log/fetch-Updates-$SubDir-$(date +%Y-%m-%d) wget --mirror \ -nH --directory-prefix=/data/workspace/sys-downloads/suse \ --exclude-directories=/pub/suse/i386/update/$SubDir/zq1 \ ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/7.3 \ --output-file=$LogDir.log \ 2>$LogDir.err This creates, in my instance a directory tree /data/workspace/sys-downloads/suse. You need to copy one more file, /suse/pub/suse/ pubring.gpg-build.suse.de, which is the gpg key. Copy that file in the directory tree to /data/workspace/sys-downloads/suse/pub/suse. Create the iso image with mkisofs with /data/workspace/sys-downloads/suse as the source. This iso image I burn onto a rewritable cd using cdrecord. I then use YAST2 to apply the patches. hope this helps Peter Sutter On Tuesday 26 February 2002 21:25, Bob Drzyzgula wrote:
In Yast2, there is a menu option to apply a "Patch Update CD". Simply downloading the current updates from SuSE's website and placing them on a CD does not, however, appear to be sufficient to get it recognized as a Patch Update CD. Searching around in the sdb and online documents, I did not immediately see any notes on how to prepare a CD that would be recognized as a patch update CD. Can someone point me to documentation on how to do this, or perhaps explain it in a response to the list?
In case it makes a difference, I'm runing 7.3/i386.
Thanks, --Bob Drzyzgula
On Tue, 26 Feb 2002, Bob Drzyzgula wrote:
In Yast2, there is a menu option to apply a "Patch Update CD". Simply downloading the current updates from SuSE's website and placing them on a CD does not, however, appear to be sufficient to get it recognized as a Patch Update CD. Searching around in the sdb and online documents, I did not immediately see any notes on how to prepare a CD that would be recognized as a patch update CD. Can someone point me to documentation on how to do this, or perhaps explain it in a response to the list?
In case it makes a difference, I'm runing 7.3/i386.
AFAIK you simply have to create a directory tree similar to the one on ftp.suse.com. Have a look at /usr/share/doc/packages/yast2-config-online-update/y2c_online_update.html It documents this feature. Bye, LenZ -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Lenz Grimmer SuSE GmbH mailto:grimmer@suse.de Deutschherrnstr. 15-19 http://www.suse.de/~grimmer/ 90429 Nuernberg, Germany The gods play games with men as balls.
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