[ale] SUSE software update not working

[James Sumners]

My opinion? Give up on it until at least 10.3. I had OpenSUSE
installed on my grandfather's machine because I thought it would be
easier to administer from afar. But ZENworks was so frustrating that I
never did any updates. Not a week after I moved in, I loaded Arch
Linux on his machine. Now it boots in about 10 seconds (instead of
about 50) and I don't have to fight with the package management.

So, yes. Tell the Zen Updater to stop loading on startup and continue
using smart for updates.

On 5/2/07, Paul Cartwright <paul_tbot at pcartwright.com> wrote:
> On Wednesday 02 May 2007 12:03:34 pm James Sumners wrote:
> > It's zmd. Zmd makes SUSE's package management completely useless.
> I thought that's why the quick push to 10.2 from 10.1 because zmd would fix
> all the update issues...
>
> >
> > http://lwn.net/Articles/231320/
> this makes no sense to me:
> ----------------------
> openSUSE is focusing on native software management by using YaST and
> libzypp, the package management library.
> ------------------
> so what does this mean,  I have no clue what libzypp is..
> so, do I try to get zmd working? do I switch to rug and try to configure it?
> fo I just continue using smart...
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------
> ZENworks Linux Management is Novell's solution for enterprise-class
> resource management for desktops and servers. ZENworks components are
> fully available and supported for SUSE Linux Enterprise based products
> and not longer part of the openSUSE distribution.
> ---------------------------------------------------
> not sure what this means to me...


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