From: Stefan Seyfried [mailto:seife@community4you.de]
Update after some tests: I have investigated data with "Ethereal", the online-update of Suse 8.2 gets it's updates from pub/suse/i386/update/8.1/....
this is weird. I don't know exactly where where you have to look for
Hi Stefan, the
wrong setting... Was this 8.2 an updated 8.1 or did it change its identity by accident?
No this was a fresh install of 8.2
I never heard of a problem like that, but i also never do updates, i always do fresh installs, just keeping my $HOME and /usr/local, which are on different partitions/drives/machines.
I have investigated more, because today I had the same problem again !!! The configuration was changed, by the automatic update script which you can select by "YOU". When you select the auto-update facility from "YOU" there will be an entry "/etc/cron.d/yast2-online-update" The contents of this is : 23 20 * * * root online_update (I programmed it at 20:23 hours) "/usr/bin/online_update" is getting the updates automatically, but unfortunately it is an old version : linux:/ # online_update -c Product: SuSE-Linux Version: 8.1 Architecture: i386 Language: de Directory: directory.3 If you try to use it in 'dry mode' with verbose output, you see : linux:/etc/cron.d # online_update -d -V Types of patches to be installed: security recommended URL: ftp://ftp.quicknet.nl//pub/Linux/ftp.suse.com Path: ./i386/update/8.1/patches As you can see, it gets the updates from the 8.1 version again. I think it can be solved to change the cron-job to : 23 20 * * * root online_update -v 8.2 When trying this manually and verbose : linux:/ # online_update -v 8.2 -d -V Types of patches to be installed: security recommended URL: ftp://ftp.quicknet.nl//pub/Linux/ftp.suse.com Path: ./i386/update/8.2/patches Could you try with "online-update -c" if your version is also 8.1 ? If so, this must be a bug .... Regards, Cees