On Tue, 22 Mar 2005, Michael Heiming wrote: > 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. Yes - we have a valid account for suse updates, so it may be simple to just copy the files from the YOU directory, and make a yum repository. We'd be using SLES 9, and SuSE Pro 9.2. I'd be interested to hear from anyone who's tried yum with these distributions. Jeremy -- Jeremy Sanders <jss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> http://www-xray.ast.cam.ac.uk/~jss/ X-Ray Group, Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge, UK. Public Key Server PGP Key ID: E1AAE053
