Online Update for SLE 10 SP1
By default, Novell offers several possibilities to perform an update. The update can be done as a system update, an online migration or via a PatchCD. This document describes how to update your running system with patches.
Update
using zen-updater
- start zen-updater from the system tray
- select the "move-to-sles10-sp1" patch
- press the "Update" button
- wait for success message
- a small popup will appear informing about changing the update server to nu.novell.com
- later, a popup asking to provide root password will appear
- after installing maintenance stack update, a window with patch selection will appear.
- Select/unselect the required patches and press 'Accept'
- reboot, after the update has finished
using YaST
- start Online-Update module from YaST control center
- select the optional move-to-sles10-sp1 (or move-to-sled10-sp1) patch
- start Online-Update module from YaST control center
- select now only the patch with the name "YOU update for YaST2" (it should be the only patch that is preselected)
- now update all other packages. After this, your system is on SP1 level.
- reboot
using rug
- run 'rug in -y -t patch switch-update-server'
- run '/usr/bin/switch-update-server'
- check that your update server is now nu.novell.com (call 'rug sl' to find out)
- run 'rug sub SLES10-Updates'
- run 'rug in -y -t patch move-to-sles10-sp1' (or 'rug in -y -t patch move-to-sled10-sp1' accordingly)
- 'rug refresh'
- 'rug sub SLES10-SP1-Online' (or 'rug sub SLED10-SP1-Online' accordingly)
- run 'rug in -y -t patch slesp1o-liby2util-devel' (or 'rug in -y -t patch sledp1o-liby2util-devel' accordingly)
- 'rczmd restart'
- run 'rug up' followed by
- 'rug in -y -t patch product-sles10-sp1' (or 'rug in -y -t patch product-sled10-sp1' accordingly) to install the update stack patch
- reboot