Zmd/rug Updater Fix

It can also be done via SMART. Just add an update channel. I believe the GURU SMART packages comes with an update channel configured by default.

Am I right in saying that the yast/system update is the only way to install security patches etc or can that be done via smart? I still don't have yast updates working properly, in fact its a mess. If I can avoid using that thing altogther it'd be great.
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I use SMART for all my updating needs ...
just add the yast channel in Edit>Channel and the update the channels...thats how i downloaded them
cheers

I must be the lucky one!

I got 10.1 with a copy of LinuxMagazine;

right after the install yast seemed to install some packages and "update" itself... at least I think that's what happened. Haven't had problems with the new package management thing yet, in fact I'm quite comfortable with it.

It can also be done via SMART. Just add an update channel. I believe the GURU SMART packages comes with an update channel configured by default.
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Yep!

Yesterday, I checked & the 4 Guru Smart x86-64 rpms are up to 0.42-1
I updated to them using smart; logged out/in
and found 4 new updates waiting on me

Site is "Guru 3rd party package repository" at
Base url: http://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/misc/suser-guru/rpm/10.1
Alais: guru
Type: yast2

Note: The updater still takes a bit to run all it's checks prior to the install, so stay cool. It's highly dependent on the server load.

Have fun...

zen-updater really frustrated me when I tried to add repositories and get this error where some repodata.xml file fails the signature check. To fix that:
1. Open a console and become root
2. Run zen-updater --no-tray
3. Click configure
4. Go to Preferences
5. Change "security-level" (near the bottom) from "signature" to "checksum"

Source: http://forums.suselinuxsupport.de/lofivers...php/t38692.html

Brilliant! Thanks for the tip.

Ok so I guess the updater must be working because I just rebooted after not seeing any updates since the libzypp updates and was able to download and apply 26 updates fine. Are there any other sites I should have configured as services for critical updates?

a 7 July libzypp update for test
is
on
ftp.suse.com/pub/people/aj

I followed it to the point where I add the service. It started out filling the progressbar, but stopped at about 40% and, after an hour of waiting, I clicked Close. The service is marked "pending". Then I tried to update and got this:

Unresolved dependencies:
Updating mono-data-sqlite-1.1.13.7-6.i586[System packages] to mono-data-sqlite-1.1.13.8-2.4.i586[20060719-175225]
Establishing atom:mono-data-sqlite-1.1.13.8-2.4.i586[SUSE-Linux-10.1-Updates]
mono-data-1.1.13.7-6.i586[System packages] provides mono-data == 1.1.13.7-6, but is scheduled to be uninstalled.
mono-data-1.1.13.7-6.i586[SUSE-Linux-10.1-DVD-i386-10.1-0-20060605-142300] provides mono-data == 1.1.13.7-6, but another version of that package is already installed.
Can't satisfy requirement mono-data == 1.1.13.7-6 for mono-data-sqlite-1.1.13.7-6.i586[System packages]
Can't install mono-data-sqlite-1.1.13.8-2.4.i586[SUSE-Linux-10.1-Updates], since mono-data-sqlite-1.1.13.8-2.4.i586[20060719-175225] is already marked as needing to be installed
Marking this resolution attempt as invalid.

What should I do now? Thanks.
Edit: I deselected the mono-data-sqlite and mono-data packages and tried again. Here's the result:

Unresolved dependencies:
Updating autoyast2-2.13.56-3.noarch[System packages] to autoyast2-2.13.69-0.3.noarch[20060719-175225]
Establishing atom:autoyast2-2.13.69-0.3.noarch[SUSE-Linux-10.1-Updates]
autoyast2-installation-2.13.56-3.noarch[System packages] provides autoyast2-installation == 2.13.56-3, but is scheduled to be uninstalled.
autoyast2-installation-2.13.56-3.noarch[SUSE-Linux-10.1-DVD-i386-10.1-0-20060605-142300] provides autoyast2-installation == 2.13.56-3, but another version of that package is already installed.
Can't satisfy requirement autoyast2-installation == 2.13.56 for autoyast2-2.13.56-3.noarch[System packages]
Can't install autoyast2-2.13.69-0.3.noarch[SUSE-Linux-10.1-Updates], since autoyast2-2.13.69-0.3.noarch[20060719-175225] is already marked as needing to be installed
Marking this resolution attempt as invalid.

Edit: unchecked autoyast2-installation and it complains about audit this time. I'm giving up for now.

Does anyone have an updated iso image that I can download? I need to repair my 10.1 x86_64 system. (I added a dvd drive, and now grub can't find the boot partition.)
This zmd, libzypp bug makes it so I can't repair the system from a dvd cut from that iso image.