Re: zypper updater (Was: Updater broken)

Hello,

On 2007-08-16, Guenther Schwarz <guenther.schwarz@xxxxxx> wrote:
But the more severe problem is that instead of simply dying with
an error message zypper behaves nasty in case something is wrong on the
repository servers or simply if one of them is temporarily not
available. This makes our users come to my office complaining about
their machines running slowly with the cooling fan turning like mad ;-)

Please file a bug report about that. I think this issue is being adressed
in 10.3 development, but it always help to get end user scenarios.

I'm also missing a simple way to synchronize the update channels on all
machines like the /etc/apt/sources.list on Debian systems.

That would definately be worth filing an improvement bug. I've seen hints,
though...

It is slow to the extreme also.

That issue has been adressed in 10.3, you may want to check out the beta
to see how it workds out for you.

All this makes me want to get rid of zypper. As far as
I can see SuSE simply does not offer an update tool suitable for the
remote administration of more than just a few computers. IMO the weakest
point of this distribution.

Well Novell has a product in place for enterprise software management.
As for openSUSE being a community project, feel free to write experiences,
or even contribute code. Anyway with those kind of bugs filed in bugzilla,
as opposed to be lost in off project support, people will take care of this.

kind regards,
Andreas
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