Re: [SLE] 9.3 - Online Update -vs- System Update

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To: suse-linux-e@suse.com
Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2005 20:32:24 +0200

On Wednesday 20 July 2005 20:16, Frank Bax wrote:
> What's the difference between "Online Update (YOU)" and "Install and Remove
> Software" and "System Update"? All of them end up at "Package Manager". I
> managed to find this page:
> http://www.novell.com/coolsolutions/feature/11823.html
> which says YOU is for applying security patches to installed software, but
> not for changing versions of software. I did happen to notice that a
> downgrade of OOo (2.0beta to 1.1.3) appears to be an option in YOU (haven't
> tried that yet), but not the other two - which seems to contradict info on
> webpage?

That is the primary purpose of YOU, but as you've noticed, it's not the only
one. YOU is used to distribute patches and fixes primarily, but it's also
used for a few other things. Notably for the distribution of the nvidia
graphics driver and in 9.3 for the multimedia packs (basically the mp3
codec). You can think of YOU as the only official path for package
distribution in a released version. There are other places and ways to get
software, but YOU is the only official one.

System Update is for wholesale updates from package repositories, for example
from the supplementary directory on the ftp site. It's really only a shortcut
for a couple of commands in the 'install/remove software' section, to make
the updates simpler

Install and Remove software is mainly for single package installation

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