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: c670e2p6:~ # zypper sl # | Enabled | Refresh | Type | Name                                  | URI --+---------+---------+------+---------------------------------------+------------------------------------------------ 1 | Yes     | Yes     | YUM  | SUSE_SLES_SP2-10.2-18-20090915-023741 | http://c670ep1/install/sles10.2/ppc64/1/patches 2 | Yes     | Yes     | YaST | SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP1   | http://9.114.95.67/install/sles10.1/ppc64/1 3 | Yes     | Yes     | YaST | SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP2   | http://c670ep1/install/sles10.2/ppc64/1 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.