This is just a simplified adaptation of a community post by author sakila here: http://www.novell.com/communities/node/9298/patching-and-upgrading-oes2-sp1-oes2-sp2 …all due credit (and thanks) to the author for putting that together!! Please read that doc first to get a feel for what I’m after here, and take in all the warnings and caveats. Maybe even post a comment, and [...]
This question came in from Steve in a comment: “…I am looking for a way to run the “rug lu” command and have it dump the output my local machine to look over and see what updates I have ahead of me…” So I replied, but then I thought of alot more stuff… so much [...]
While working with a customer today, we were solving some silly problems that cropped up while patching his OES2sp1 Linux servers. Some nonsense about Mozilla dependencies on 64-bit servers (see Novell TID 7004278 for details on that). But that’s not what I’m here to discuss today… Anyway, since SLES10sp3 came out in the past few [...]
Update, 20091023: Please see post http://yourlinuxguy.com/?p=314 for more updated information… back to the original post… I got this question the other day from Steve: I use “rug up” to update all of my SLES/OES2 servers and it works great when it actually starts.. The problem is that if it has been a while since it [...]
