updating from SLES 10 sp1 to SLES 10 sp2

for some reason I’ve had to do a lot of updates lately of OSes…

SLES 10 SP1 is 2.6.16.53-0.16 kernel for my ppc nodes.

SLES 10 SP2 is 2.6.16.60-0.21

I did my update via yast.

This URL had some helpful info:

http://www.novell.com/support/viewContent.do?externalId=7000387

Trick: Have to do a symbollic link:

cd /install/sles10.2/ppc/1/patches

ln -s ../suse .

Then you put this directory in yast:

http://mgmt/install/sles10.2/ppc/1/patches

Here is the yast configuration portion on the nodes you are updateing:

Software -> Installation Source -> Add –> specify URL -> http://<mgmt>/install/sles10.2/ppc64/1/patches

You’ll also need to add the SLES 10 SP2 base DVD in there as well. Do the above, but put in http://<mgmt>/install/sles10.2/ppc64/1/ (no patches)

If you get that then you’ll have to accept the license.

Since mine had the old SP1 in the installation source I got rid of that. The easiest was to use zypper:

I removed the #2 entry: zypper sd 2

From there I went back into yast and did Software -> Online Update

After stumbling through install directories a few times I finally was able to update everything. I think yast is non-optimal and I’m a much bigger fan of Yum.