SLES 10 updates via SLES 9 machine
 

Our update server is Suse Enterprise server 9 (SLES 9) configure as a YaST Online Update (YOU), this machine get updates from Novell and all our SLES 9 machines point to this machine for updates. Now we have SLES 10 machines and I would like it to point to our “YOU” server for updates, unfortunately SLES 10 does not support updating via “YOU” server.



How can I configure my SLES 9 as an update server for SLES 10?

How can I get updates for SLES 10 via SLES 9 machine?

Hello,

look at the Novell-Site (Cool solutions). I think they have a example how to configure a
YOU-Server for more then one Products.
It has something to do with /var/adm/YAST.

HTH

what you can do is this:

mirror novell's sles10-sp1-updates repo to your server and share it with nfs. I assume they let you do it as it works for us that way. sles10 can be configured to access it that way. works fine in our department. I also suggest to get rid of zmd and just use zypper, crashes less often, less cpu hogging.

you can add the update repository like this (zypper / rug (zmd) ) syntax:

of course the same works with yast which syncs with zypper.
for automatic updates you just need to tweak the old "yast2-online-update" cron-script to use zypper instead of rug.