Bob Vickers wrote:
Since upgrading to 10.1 I have found applying security updates has become an extremely hit-and-miss process which takes much longer than it did under SuSE 9.3. I would be very grateful if someone could answer two questions:
(1) What is the simplest way of applying security updates from the command-line? Something equivalent to online_update security
(2) How do you configure it to use a local mirror instead of the far-off Austrian mirror that the Setup process likes to configure?
I have looked at the rug man page and frankly don't understand it (the only bit I do understand turns out to be a lie: it says the only command you need is 'rug update'). I'm not interested in catalogues and services etc, I just want to install security updates.
There is a beta version of fou4s for 10.1 at http://fou4s.gaugusch.at/ The entire zen/rug thing still has yet to even provide the functionality of the previous update system (no delta rpms, for instance) and takes far more resources. fou4s is a rather large shell script that manages updates via the command line and is designed to easily be put into a cron job to check and download updates, then install them at your command. (or even install them from cron, if you prefer) It's kinda sad when a shell script is a better system than zen/rug. Can you believe Novell actually charges people for the zen suite?