[CVALE] SuSE and updating

[Ian Sterling]

Good to know Wayne.

I've seen the 10.1 box at my local Fry's and was surprised they were
up to that revision so soon.  (Not that I've kept up with it or
anything...)

Would you say that SuSE 10.1 is worth the $70 price they sell it for?

On 8/24/06, Wayne Vieira <wavieira at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>
> I wanted to follow-up with some questions I had posted, in case anyone was
> interested in what the resolution was.  I was having problems with the
> update tool on SuSE 10.1, since they changed from YOU (Yast Online Update)
> to novell zen-works updater.
>
> The general problem was that zen-update(in the initial distribution) sucked
> (a technical term).  I couldn't get it to work, and thought my system was a
> pretty basic installation.  It would connect to any of the repositories I
> set up, wouldn't configure, and often just aborted without anything that
> resembled an eror message.  I figured I must have done something wrong, but
> couldn't get even a hint as to what that was.  I dropped SL10.1 and tried
> out FC5 for awhile.  However, I found the solution while looking for other
> answers.
>
> Apparently many 10.1 users were having the same problem.  SuSE sent out a
> message apologizing for releasing a package with lower quality than
> customers typically expected.  A fix existed, but they were recommending I
> use zen-update to acquire it.  The state of my system was such that I'd
> never be able to complete the download.  So, I just did a manual download
> (via ftp) from one of the SuSE mirrors, and installed the new rpm.
> Configurations and connections went great. Online updating is a breeze, just
> like it used to be.
>
> Wayne
>
>
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