What About Yast Online Update; Patching From Behind A Proxy Server; Quick Path Updating; Do Not Use Rug Up Without The -T Option - Novell OPEN ENTERPRISE SERVER 2 SP2 Installation Manual

7.6.3 What about YaST Online Update?

Novell supports two mechanisms for updating an OES 2 server:
The rug utility from a terminal prompt.
The Novell Updater from a GUI desktop.
However, some OES administrators prefer to use YaST Online Update (YOU) for updating OES 2
servers. Although YOU is not tested by OES 2 product testers, the only customer problems reported
to Novell occur when someone tries to use both the rug-based methods and the YOU method in
combination on the same server.
IMPORTANT: Whichever method (YOU or rug-based) you choose for a given OES 2 SP2 server,
that method must be used exclusively for the life of the server.
For more information about using YOU to update your servers, see
www.novell.com/documentation/sles10/sles_admin/data/
sec_yast2_sw.html#sec_yast2_sysconfig_onupdate)

7.7 Patching From Behind a Proxy Server

See TID 3132246 (http://www.novell.com/support/
viewContent.do?externalId=3132246&sliceId=2).

7.8 Quick Path Updating

This section contains the following Quick Path steps for patching an OES 2 server:
Section 7.8.1, "Do Not Use rug up without the -t Option," on page 161
Section 7.8.2, "Command Line Quick Path for Updating OES 2," on page 161
Section 7.8.3, "GUI Quick Path for Updating OES 2 SP2," on page 164

7.8.1 Do Not Use rug up without the -t Option

Do not use the command by itself to update an OES server. Always use the
rug up
as described in Section 7.8.2, "Command Line Quick Path for Updating OES 2," on page
If the option is omitted, rug includes SLES packages in the download that can cripple or
-t patch
completely break OES services.
The option also ensures that patch meta data (including script files, etc.) is downloaded so
-t patch
that SLES can correctly update the system.

7.8.2 Command Line Quick Path for Updating OES 2

1 Make sure you have the following:
A Novell Customer Center account
If you don't have one, create it at http://www.novell.com/register. This is the same account
that you use for Bugzilla.
"YaST Online Update" (http://
in the SLES 10 Administration Guide.
Updating (Patching) an OES 2 SP2 Server 161
option
-t patch
161.