Automatic Online Update - Novell LINUX ENTERPRISE SERVER 10 SP2 - INSTALLATION AND ADMINISTRATION Installation Manual

If you install an up-to-date package from a catalog other than the update catalog, the
requirements of a patch for this package may be fulfilled with this installation. In this
case a check mark is displayed in front of the patch summary. The patch will be visible
in the list until you mark it for installation. This will in fact not install the patch (because
the package already is up-to-date), but mark the patch as having been installed.
Most patches include updates for several packages. If you want to change actions for
single packages, right-click on a package in the package window and choose an action.
Once you have marked all patches and packages as desired, proceed with Accept.
TIP: Disabling deltarpms
Since rebuilding rpm packages from deltarpms is a memory and CPU time
consuming task, certain setups or hardware configuration might require to
disable the usage of deltarpms for performance sake. To disable the use of
deltarpms edit the file /etc/zypp/zypp.conf and set
download.use_deltarpm to false.
Another alternative for updating software is the ZENworks updater applet for KDE and
GNOME. The ZENworks updater helps monitor new patches. It also provides a quick
update function. For more information, refer to Section 9.2, "Managing Packages with
the ZEN Tools" (page 204).

8.3.6 Automatic Online Update

YaST also offers the possibility to set up an automatic update. Select Software > Auto-
matic Online Update. Configure a Daily or a Weekly update. Some patches, such as
kernel updates, require user interaction, which would cause the automatic update pro-
cedure to stop. Check Skip Interactive Patches for the update procedure to proceed au-
tomatically. In this case, run a manual Online Update from time to install patches that
require interaction.
When Only Download Patches is checked, the patches are downloaded at the specified
time but not installed. They must be installed manually. The patches are downloaded
to the rug cache directory, /var/cache/zmd/web, by default. Use the command
rug get-prefs cache-directory to get the current rug cache directory. For
more information about rug, see Section 9.1, "Update from the Command Line with
rug" (page 200).
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