Making a SuSE Patch CD

As many of the SuSE users on the forum may have noticed by now, there's an option on the main page of YaST to apply a patch CD. These Patch CDs can either be purchased directly from SuSE, or, created with a bit of work.

1: The first thing you should do, is run YOU (YaST Online Update).

2: Apply all the relevant updates in the usual way.

3: Copy all the files from "/var/lib/YaST2/you/mnt/" to a suitable directory (retaining directory structure).

4: Download this file and put it the same directory where you copied the contents of "/var/lib/YaST2/you/mnt/" to.

5: Burn the contents of your Patch CD folder. BEFORE burning, ensure that your directory structure of the CD looks something like the following:

i386/
--update/
----9.0/
------patches/
------rpm/
--------i586/
--------i686/
--------noarch/
------scripts/
media.1/
pubring.gpg-build.suse.de

That will vary slightly depending on which architecture you're using. You may also want to burn it onto a CDRW so that when a new update comes out, it's simply a matter of adding the required files to the CD.

6: Use your patch CD!