well, you may add that FTP location to Yast source as well as for apt -- i have already checked that out, but i will believe it only if it will update my SuSE 8.1 up to 8.2 without any negative consequences. (like it can do on debian). Personally -- ypm (i mean yast package manager utilities set) seemed to me much simplier in maintaining and using. there is also a big disadvantage for both apt and ypm in case of SuSE -- there is no central regularly-updates package repository, which could be cooperatively supported by both coomunity and SuSE developers -- i mean such are Debian repositories, or AltLinux'es Sisyphus (altlinux is a russian mandrake-based linux distribution -- check it out on ftp://ftp.altlinux.ru/pub/distributions/ALTLinux/Sisyphus -- pay attention at the freshness of the software packages residing there) what is done currently -- several independant package-sites plus somewhat supported by individual suse developers does not utilize both ypm's and apt's capabilities in SuSE -- currently it appears much easier (and safer) to maintain the system using just rpm command manually. And this is not the problem of SuSE alone, but of UnitedLinux as well. Linux has the greatest advantage over other well-known propriatory systems -- it is composed of open-interfaced and replacable parts -- a kernel, the libraries set, graphical user interface system, users' desktop system, configuration and setup tools set-- unfotunately, and this feature is not fully utilized currently in SuSE, thus loosing this initiative to such projects as gentoo or debian. On Thursday 20 February 2003 22:04, you wrote:
Op donderdag 20 februari 2003 18:46, schreef Vitaly Shishakov:
i would recommend the following procedure:
get all the ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/supplementary/KDE/update_for_8.1 to your hard drive (except, maybe, the source packages),
and add the path to its yast-source into Yast installation sorces, move it up(to the first place), and then start Yast -> System upgrade and select "update only the installed packages),
Hi Vitaly,
instead of downloading just all packages you could use e.g. the Advanced Package Tool (apt) to determine which pkgs are to be updated. Well with the same tool you could just download the pkgs (option -d) as well. Switch than to yast to have the pkgs installed (in case you have more trust in yast in then in apt). More about apt at http://linux01.gwdg.de/apt4rpm