Update broken in 11.1

**mantolik** · 02-Jan-2009, 15:08

It is broken here - my error says that SSL failed. I can add a repository as discussed here, but the 'register'portion fails.
Any ideas?

**mingus725** · 02-Jan-2009, 16:47

IIRC "PackageKit" - which replaces the 11.0 updater applet - needs a fix. I encountered this on RC 1, so can't say positively the same is true on Final. Running Online Update from YaST installed the fix, and thereafter the updater worked.

**Ricochet** · 02-Jan-2009, 23:56

I only had a Wine update and thats it. Online Update from YaST is empty.

**mingus725** · 03-Jan-2009, 08:05

Originally Posted by Ricochet

I only had a Wine update and thats it. Online Update from YaST is empty.

I just took a look here Index of /update/11.1/rpm/i586. There are 2 package management updates, plus a number of other updates.

**Ricochet** · 03-Jan-2009, 08:37

The 2 yast updates there I already have installed, so it seems.
They are from 19 and 20 December, which is around the date I upgraded to 11.1

All other packages are from before that, so no updates after that date?

**gtsiamis** · 03-Jan-2009, 13:48

I do have the same problem. I did a fresh install on my laptop and the update is broken (Current update repository: None). The same problem does occur in another 2 computers (desktops). In the last ones I did an update from 11 to 11.1 (net install).

Is there a patch for this problem?

Cheers

GT

**mingus725** · 03-Jan-2009, 15:09

Originally Posted by Ricochet

All other packages are from before that, so no updates after that date?

That seems to be so. I have not seen any other info about this.

**blainesimpson** · 05-Jan-2009, 12:40

This is a non-critical issue. I'm just reporting a work-around for the benefit of others.

online_update_configuration just does not see the repositories which I have successfully configured with "yast2 repositories". No matter what I do, The "Current Update Repository:" section of online_update_configuration is empty with no repositories to pick from.

I tried disabling ipv6 entirely, because the 11.1 installer has bugs wrt ipv4 vs. ipv6, but that had no effect on this repository invisibility problem.

However, contrary to what one would expect, in this situation, online_update_configuration seems to have absolutely no effect on either online_update or sw_single. My goal is to get frequent updates from my update server + third party repositories (my own partial mirrors of Mozilla and Packman). To accomplish this, you just use "yast2 repositories" to add your desired update repositories and make sure to set the priorities lower (higher priority) than the oss/etc. repositories. I.e., sw_single and online_update only see the first package of any name, based on priorities. To perform the update, use either sw_single or online_update menu Package / All Packages / Update if newer version available.

I see no difference between sw_single and online_update (maybe they have been merged?), but perhaps this can be automated with the later but not the former? I doubt Yast can be made to automatically apply liberal updates like I do through the menu (regardless that this use case was touted about 4 years ago), and at this point I wouldn't trust it to do so automatically without corrupting my RPM dependencies anyways.

**rasmus_borup_hansen** · 06-Jan-2009, 00:50

It appears that the Updater Applet is sensitive to the name of the update repository. After renaming my own mirror of the updates to "Main Update Repository" the updates were detected.

**6205** · 08-Jan-2009, 04:17

Uhm...i think updater in indeed broken in 11.1, because it never list updates, but in package manager they are listed..

Check this mockup combined from 2 images(those apps cannot run together)but that's how it works. Updater don't show updates, but when you launch package manager there are some available..

http://img101.imageshack.us/img101/7899/updaterbz5.jpg