Re: yup repositories for SLE 12?

On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 02:18:05PM +0100, Frank Steiner wrote:
> Marcus Meissner wrote
> 
> > On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 01:14:26PM +0100, Frank Steiner wrote:
> >> Frank Steiner wrote
> >>
> >>> Could that be because the credentials from /etc/credentials.d/NCCcredentials
> >>> are not valid for SCC? I don't have SCCcredentials, likely I had to run 
> >>> suseRegister again on a SLE 12 system to get them....
> >> Yes, that worked. I quickly setup a SLES 12 in a VirtualBox and got
> >> the SCCcredentials. Using them I can now access and download the
> >> SLES 12 updates even from a SLE 11 SP3 server. To download
> >> SDK and SLED, too, they must be added as add-on products once.
> >> Their credentials are the same as the SLES ones, so yup will indeed
> >> work with only one user/pass string, but the different products must be
> >> "connected" with these credentials by registering them once.
> 
> Just for the records: I failed to access SLED updates because I could not
> add SLED as add-on product to SLES (not that it would make much sense,
> just for registering them together with one set of credentials... But I
> could not find a URL to add for SLED updates that would ask me for the
> registration code...). So I installed SLED on its own and got different 
> credentials. I could add SDK to this set, too.
> 
> I will just add some code from the old yup to read the values from config
> files and everything is fine :-)

Workstation Extension contains some desktop packages at least... if you
are interested in them.
 
> > I have not yet reverse engineered SMT (which you could still just use btw).
> 
> I tried to find the mentioned smt 2.0.7 for SLE 11, but searching
> on updates.suse.com I get only an iso images for a 1.x version from 2013,
> so I couldn't check the migration ability. When SLE 12 is running, I
> will definitely take a look at it. However, yup perfectly allows for 
> adjusting to our own needs: always keep only the newest rpm versions, 
> not fetching patch.rpm etc. is really easy to adjust with changing some 
> lines of code :-)
> 
> Thanks again for all your help!

:)

Ciao, Marcus
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