Update Media Howto

Lenz Grimmer

Klaus Kaempf

Steffen Winterfeldt

Edited by

Hendrik Vogelsang

Copyright © 2006 SUSE LINUX Products GmbH

Table of Contents

1. Introduction

1.1. What is an Update Medium?

1.1.1. CD/DVD Installations
1.1.2. Harddisk/NFS/SMB Installations
1.1.3. HTTP/FTP Installations (>= SL 9.0)

1.2. The different types of Update Media

1.3. Changes since SuSE Linux 9.0 / UnitedLinux Service Pack 3

1.4. Changes in SUSE LINUX 9.1 / SLES9

1.5. Changes in SLES9 Service Pack 1

1.6. Resources

2. Common Stuff

2.1. Directory structure

2.1.1. [number] prefix for the directory structure (>= SL 9.0)

2.2. Update Media name and id (>= SL 9.0)

2.3. Combinations of different Update Media

2.4. Applying Updates

3. Driver Update

3.1. Included files on the update medium

3.1.1. update.tar.gz
3.1.2. *.rpm (>= SL 9.1)
3.1.3. update.pre
3.1.4. update.post
3.1.5. update.post2 (>= SL 9.0)
3.1.6. inst-sys (>= SLES9 SP1)
3.1.7. dud.config (>= SL 9.0)
3.1.8. Dummy Driver Module

3.2. Creating the driver modules

3.3. Workflow for the Driver Update

4. Vendor Update

4.1. Included files on the update medium
4.2. Workflow for the Vendor Update

5. YaST Update

5.1. Included files on the update medium
5.2. Workflow of the YasT Update

List of Examples
2-1. Common directory structure
2-2. Common directory structure with a [number] prefix
2-3. Contents of the dud.config file
3-1. Contents of a Driver Update Medium
4-1. Contents of a Vendor Update Medium
5-1. Contents of a YaST Update Medium

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