Re: missing SLES11 SP1 files on Updateserver

On Fri, Jul 02, 2010 at 02:19:21PM +0200, Michael Menge wrote:
> Quoting Peter Bowen <[email protected]>:
> 
> >On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 05:21, Michael Menge
> ><[email protected]> wrote:
> >>Quoting Marcus Meissner <[email protected]>:
> >>
> >>>
> >>>After you add the Pool channel to the available repos above error should
> >>>go away.
> >>>
> >>>The Extra channel also seems not be mirrored, which makes the migration
> >>>stop halfways
> >>
> >>Can you tell me which channels exist, and most importend what the
> >>differens is. I did know Update and Online and had my problems to
> >>understand the differance but now there are also Pool and Extra and ....
> >
> >Pool is all the packages that are on the DVD
> >Extra is additional packages with lesser support levels
> >Update is newer packages released after the media (mostly security and
> >bugfix updates)
> >Online is used to move from GA to SP1 (then not used after)
> >
> Thanks for the info.
> Is SLES11-SP1-online for GA to SP1 or for SP1 to SP2?
> SLES11-SP1-online is still empty.

-Online is not used in SLE11, the migration is done via the SP1 Pool repo.
(It was used in SP3.)

> >SMT can not only mirror but also gives a nice interface to list
> >available channels and choose which to mirror.  You might think about
> >switching from YUP to SMT...
> >
> 
> What is SMT and where can i find it?

Subscription Management Tool.
	http://www.novell.com/linux/smt/
has the intro and download link.

(maintenance available without additional cost to regular SLES subscription)

Ciao, Marcus
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