seth vidal wrote: >>Is using yum on SuSE actually going to work without day-to-day headaches? >>Presumably I just need to run yast-arch or whatever on the SuSE updates >>directory. Will SLES work if I grab the updates out of the YOU directory? > > > you mean yum-arch > > I don't know what YOU is. YOU == Yast Online Update Doesn't work that great, there's a script "fou4s" or so which works much better. But it doesn't allow for additional install/etc stuf yum offers. One can easily, (presuming a valid account for the enterprise versions updates) simply mirror the suse updates with some cli tool like wget/curl. In opposite to redhat, which make downloading multiple patches through rhn a pain in the ass, unless you have (for any version) one system connected to the interent/rhn. There's a "rhn proxy" and a "local rhn server" available. But alas they aren't really cheap and might not be the proper solution for anyone. >>I tried the yast source rpm (after rebuilding it) on SuSE, but it requires >>/sbin/service which isn't in SuSE. Any ideas, anyone? I assume the spec >>file needs to know about whatever it is SuSE uses... > > > yast source rpm? do you mean yum? > > > I was just talking to someone this morning about this. > Questions: > - what ver of sles? > - what ver of yum? > - what ver of rpm? Sles (Suse Linux Enterprise Server) version 8 comes with rpm 3.x, AFAIK no go with yum. Sles 9 comes with rpm 4.x, so yum might work, haven't tested, but I'll be glad to hear that it works with yum. Regards and keep the great work! Michael Heiming
