[ale] SUSE Linux and repo confusion, may be repeat but please bear

[Beddingfield, Allen]

Does your company have an SMT server?  That is where you should look to activate.  

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Allen Beddingfield
Systems Engineer
The University of Alabama

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From: ale-bounces at ale.org [ale-bounces at ale.org] on behalf of James Taylor [James.Taylor at eastcobbgroup.com]
Sent: Sunday, January 26, 2014 10:39 PM
To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
Subject: Re: [ale] SUSE Linux and repo confusion, may be repeat but please bear

Regardless of how the  the image was generated, if It's SLES, you register the installation and it will automatically add the update repositories. You will need an activation code, though.
You have to purchase maintenance for that, or get an eval code.
FYI, the current release of SLES 11 is sp3, soon to be sp4.
Is the image a custom build intended to perform a specific role? Unless it's a intended to be a JEOS with it's own update support, you are probably better off installing from the iso.
If you're in a VM environment, the easiest thing to do is build templates for the specialized loads you want.  However, you still need to register to get updates to maintain the installations.
Some older openSUSE rpms are compatible with SLES, but if you are using SLES, I assume you need a supported OS. If that's the case, adding openSUSE rpms to the mix may be counterproductive.
-jt



James Taylor
678-697-9420
james.taylor at eastcobbgroup.com



>>> "Narahari 'n' Savitha" <savithari at gmail.com> 1/26/2014 11:21 AM >>>
.raw files are file that SuseStudio generates that gets slapped on a
HardDrive so you dont have to go thru the installation process.  It is more
like a Vagrant box I guess.

All the machines in my office are auto enabled by SLES mechanism.

So there are not issues there.  How do you hunt for OpenSuse/SLES packages
that are compat and I am trying to find the idea here on how to get those
packages on the box.

-Narahari


On Sun, Jan 26, 2014 at 10:29 AM, Boris Borisov <bugyatl at gmail.com> wrote:

> When I'm trying to download SLES for trial it says that I have to get
> activation code to be able to get updates. May be you have to do the same
> to get access to whatever packages.
>
> I'm just guessing here ...
>
>
> On Sun, Jan 26, 2014 at 9:50 AM, Boris Borisov <bugyatl at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> What is RAW file ?
>>
>>
>> On Saturday, January 25, 2014, Narahari 'n' Savitha <savithari at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > Friends:
>> > My office upgraded and gave us a new SLES 11 SP2 raw file built thru
>> Suse-Studio.
>> > I installed the SLES 11 SP2 inside VirtualBox and  works fine.
>> > I want to be able to install VirtualBoxAdditions and it is not working
>> out right.
>> > The uname -a command says the kernel is 3.0.74-0.6.6-default.
>> > I have to install the kernel linux headers that correspond to the
>> kernel version.
>> > How do I go about searching repos that host kernel 3.0.74-0.6.6 headers
>> and adding those repos to my VM ?
>> > I am trying to get a generic idea on how to find and add repos for a
>> given version of a given package.
>> > If I add an open-suse repo to a SLES box will that work or is there
>> catch ?
>> > We have PPA's for Ubuntu or AUR for Arch, what is the equivalent on
>> SUSE world ?
>> > -Narahari
>>
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