On Monday 06 October 2003 23.05, js wrote:
Anders Johansson wrote:
On Monday 06 October 2003 02.19, js wrote:
So again, if he wants to upgrade to 3.1.4, he will have to download the packages and install manually.
Did you read my message in this thread? You are wrong!
You are as sutle as ever.
Well, perhaps I should have phrased it better, it just bothered me that you repeated "it isn't possible" even after I had pointed out that it is
If that is the case then I stand corrected. However, this is not a user friendly method nor is it practical to expect users to hunt through suse's ftp site to find the location of an unadvertised supplemental software tree, then change their install source to that location.
I didn't say "change", I said "add". You can have more than one. As for its being unadvertised, well, I agree, I wish there were more official updates, but that's SuSE policy, I don't think it's going to change
There have been many posts in the past about peeople who never got yast's install/remove feature to work again after doing that though it has no doubt never happened to you.
Actually no, it hasn't. However, I just did what I consider to be a cool thing :) I patched the kernel with the lufs patch (http://lufs.sourceforge.net), then I mounted ftp://ftp.gwdg.de on my local file system. Then I used the "mount directory as channel" feature in ximian's red carpet, and voila, I get the upgrades listed when I start red carpet and I won't have to mess up YaST (potentially) to do it Worth a try, no? I know the kernel patching may seem difficult, but it's really not Install kernel-sources.rpm cd /usr/src/linux make cloneconfig patch -p1 < /path/to/patchfile make xconfig select LUFS from miscellaneous file systems save and exit make modules make copy lufs.o from /usr/src/linux/fs/lufs/ to /lib/modules/2.4.20-4GB (or whichever kernel you're running) compile and install lufsd from the lufs web site follow the instructions in the README on how to mount an ftp server I'm not sure if this is good practice or how much it burdens the ftp server (doesn't *look* like much), or even if it's the simplest way to go about it, but the end result sure is cool :) Of course, even better would be to rewrite red carpet to use gnome-vfs, that would probably be the "correct" thing to do