On Mon, 2005-07-04 at 10:59 -0400, Mark Polhamus wrote:
> This is also my first attempt at SUSE, so consider this accordingly:
>
> I don't know what I did differently, but after the same basic scenario my SUSE
> installation has MozillaFirefox-1.0.4-1.1. From what I can make of the logs
> in /var/log/Yast2 looks like it got upgraded the first time I ran YOU (online
> update).
>
The Firefox upgrade was in "red" in the patch list of the GUI Yast
Online Update if I remember correctly. That means that it was a
security update. Although the description people are giving is not
completely correct. They do update packages to a certain degree but
it's always waaaay behind schedule due to the review process and they
usually only seem to pay attention to the more popular packages.
> I think someone else asked you this, but did you run the yast2 online_update
> module (YOU) rather than the install/remove software module? You can invoke
> YOU directly from the command line by yast2 'online_update' Another way is
> using the "SUSE watcher" panel applet.
>
> Perhaps the server you connect to makes a difference. Mine was automatically
> configured to use the server at Texas A&M (http://ops.tamu.edu/suse/).
>
> Another SUSE frustration: When setting servers for install sources (different
> from online update -- Yast2/"change source of installation"), the list of SUSE
> mirrors on their site doesn't consistently list the correct place in the
> directory hierarchy. You need to browse around a bit to find exactly enter
> the right path to enter, otherwise you get a very unhelpful error code from
> Yast2. I can't find the URL to the web page that describes it, but I think
> it's the level with the "media.1" file in it.
>
Yeah... usually ftp:// or http://
server-ip-or-name/suse/architecture(i386,x86_64)/version(9.1, 9.2, 9.3)
but not always the same. It seems that some of the mirrors put that
structure inside of several other directories. I find that the http
ones work better for some stupid reason (ftp anon crap?).
Mike Branda Jr.
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