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Title: SDB: Updating the local database

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SDB: Updating the local database

Applies to

SuSE Linux: Versions since 5.0

Symptom:

The local support database (SDB) is too old.

Solution:

Every night S.u.S.E. creates a package of the up-to-date SDB documents and puts it on its ftp server in the directory ftp://ftp.suse.com/suse_update/misc/ in RPM and TGZ format.

Since rpm also contains an FTP client, it is possible to easily update the local SDB with the command

rpm -U ftp://ftp.suse.com/suse_update/misc/sdb.rpm

Solution for offline systems :

There are some WWW-to-Mail gateways, which you can use to receive WWW documents via mail. E.g. w3mail@gmd.de -- enter "help" for the subject and you will get instructions. You can for example order the history file http://www.suse.de/Support/sdb/history.html in regular intervals via such a gateway. You can then choose the interesting articles according to the history file.


In case of trouble :

You need at least rpm version 2.4.10. This version -- packed with an older rpm-version -- is available from our ftp server at ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse_update/suse51/rpm/rpm.rpm. Install it with the command

rpm -U ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse_update/suse51/rpm/rpm.rpm

It is highly recommended to also update YaST at the same time :

rpm -U ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse_update/suse51/a1/yast.rpm

It cannot be guaranteed, that this version of YaST will cooperate flawlessly with older versions of the base system. In order to avoid trouble, you should also update the complete base system (series "a"; see ke_update.html#basis).


It might happen, that you must also update the CGI scripts, such that searching the helpsystem still works :

rpm -U ftp://ftp.suse.com/suse_update/misc/sdb_cgi.rpm

If you're doing this update in a very old version of »S.u.S.E. Linux«, you must ensure, that the documents and CGI scripts can be found by your old WWW server (Apache). It might be necessary to copy the CGI scripts from /usr/local/httpd/cgi-bin to /httpd/cgi-bin and to create a link from /httpd/htdocs/support-db to the directory /usr/doc/support-db :

cd /httpd/htdocs
rm -fr support-db
ln -s ../../usr/doc/support-db support-db

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See also:

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Keywords: SDB, SUPPORT, DATABASE

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Categories: Frequently asked Questions , SuSE

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Feedback welcome: Send Mail to ke@suse.de (Please give the following subject: SDB-ke_sdb-update)

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SDB-ke_sdb-update, Copyright SuSE GmbH, Nuremberg, Germany - Version: 01. Jul 1998
SuSE GmbH - Last generated: 07. Oct 1999 16:49:18 by maddin with sdb_gen 1.00.0