Tom Horsley wrote:

I've installed 10.2 from the DVD I made from the iso image. I've configured update sources, yet as ancient (in computer time, anyway) as 10.2 is, zypper always tells me there is nothing to do when I try it:

Restoring system sources... Parsing metadata for 20061219-202641... Parsing metadata for SUSE-Linux-10.2-Updates... Parsing RPM database... Summary: Nothing to do.

I see it saying it is looking at metadata for updates, so it must think it knows where to find some. A service-list says:

# | Enabled | Refresh | Type | Name | URI --+---------+---------+------+-------------------------+-------------------------------------------------------------- 1 | Yes | Yes | YaST | 20061219-202641 | http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/10.2/repo/non-oss/ 2 | Yes | Yes | YUM | SUSE-Linux-10.2-Updates | http://ftp.ale.org/pub/suse/update/10.2 3 | No | Yes | YaST | 20061213-191726 | ftp://mirrors.kernel.org/opensuse/distribution/10.2/repo/oss/

Are there really no updates yet from the original DVD iso image?

Install smart package manager and you will find that there are lots of upgrades. I followed all the instructions when installing 10.2 just to see if the zen/rug/whatever-the-mess-is-called would work as promised but it has been sitting here with not a damn peep out of it so I installed smart (as I did in 10.1) and 10.2 has been upgrading almost on a daily basis. Cheers. -- In a period of great joy and pleasure you are comforted by the thought that tragedy is just around the corner. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

Tom Horsley writes: [...]

I see it saying it is looking at metadata for updates, so it must think it knows where to find some. A service-list says:

# | Enabled | Refresh | Type | Name | URI --+---------+---------+------+-------------------------+-------------------------------------------------------------- 1 | Yes | Yes | YaST | 20061219-202641 | http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/10.2/repo/non-oss/ 2 | Yes | Yes | YUM | SUSE-Linux-10.2-Updates | http://ftp.ale.org/pub/suse/update/10.2

I'm using the one available at ftp://ftp.uni-kl.de/pub/linux/suse/update/10.2/ and already had a bunch of updates for my installation of openSUSE 10.2, e.g. Firefox, GPG or ImageMagick.

3 | No | Yes | YaST | 20061213-191726 | ftp://mirrors.kernel.org/opensuse/distribution/10.2/repo/oss/

Are there really no updates yet from the original DVD iso image?

Definitely not. If you want to be notified for available (official) updates, subscribe to the SUSE Security Announcements list. See for more information http://news.gmane.org/gmane.linux.suse.security.announce. Franz -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org