fou4s -
Fast OnlineUpdate for SuSE

Current version: fou4s-0.14.1

Note for SuSE 10.1 users

Fou4s Key features:

• Fast and reliable update
• Supports SuSE Linux 9.0 to 10.0 and all SuSE business products based on SLES 9
• Especially designed for usage in cron jobs
• Interactive mode for full control
• Network-wide updates from the same update directory possible (Even with different SuSE versions!)
• Bandwidth-limit in kbyte/sec for downloads *new*
• Support for non-YOU RPM's, e.g. packman or supplementary (KDE, Gnome, Mozilla) updates *new*
• FTP server benchmarking tool included
• Proxy support
• Automatic resuming of downloads
• Management of offline machines - fou4s can import/export machine data and packages *new*
• Remote host checking, even if fou4s is not installed there *new*
• Filtering (install only security updates, or skip optional packages)
• Interactive ftp server selection
• SuSEconfig is called, after an update is finished (can be turned off)
• Warns the user, if processes are accessing deleted files (which means, that the update is not complete)
• Installation of additional RPMs from the update directory
• Support for the new patch.rpm updates on SuSE 8.0 and higher

Fou4s is relatively advanced, although it is only a "simple" bash script. The goal is to provide all functionality of YOU, and some additional goodies, like proxy and resume support.

Although it works fine for me and many others, I suggest to run SuSE's YOU from time to time. If you find bugs, please report them to me. Thanks.

Talk to me!

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