* Stephan Martin wrote on Sun, Feb 11, 2001 at 15:45 +0100:
HiHO...
Is it possible to give some details about the new Yast Online Update for suse 7.1?
Then you can use the YaST2 frontend to connect to the ftp-server. It will fetch the "patch-files" and show you the description. Then you can let YaST2 install the update. Or you can choose the automated way and YaST2 will do everything without asking for any decisions.
Are the packages signed? Otherwise this looks like a nice security hole here, since some DNS Spoofing or similar would allow an attacker to send trojaned RPMs.
But it's a really good thing for all the newbies, who are used to click buttons :-)
I'm afraid this could cause a wrong feeling of security. Automatic updates are a problem at all, I had troubles with a lot of SuSEs RPMs, I believe that around 50% of the updates needed manual actions. SuSE would need to test the RPMs contents as much as possible, otherwise you get that windows behaivior: installing a ServicePack, and some things will not work and so on, and nobody knows why. As long as there are problems with the RPMs as currently I would not use that automatic thing at all. I have to test any RPM before installing in production. oki, Steffen -- Dieses Schreiben wurde maschinell erstellt, es trägt daher weder Unterschrift noch Siegel.