On Thursday 18 November 2004 11:07 am, Dave Hull wrote:
Is it possible to run yast from the cli and have it update everything available, the way one can with up2date -uf on Red Hat?
Not as far as I know. You have to step through the menu selection process. As I said, the documentation claims that you can specify a package on the command line, but doing so just takes you to the selection menu.
We've had very good results with Red Hat EL AS 3, but our subscriptions are less than 60 days from expiration so we wanted to look at SLES before we renewed our RH subscriptions.
We're running a couple instances of Oracle DB and their Application Server on a few Red Hat servers. But Novell and Oracle are now claiming that SuSE is the fastest platform available for running Oracle, largely due to SLES use of the 2.6 kernel that contains "significant" IO enhancements.
I'm surprised at how long it's taking RH and others to get the 2.6 kernel integrated into their distributions.
My clients could never afford RHEL subscriptions. They were ok with the $60/year price, but when RH screwed us all they stuck with their 7.x installations. I really wish I knew what to recommend to them.