question re Suse

[Jack Berger]

Well, and I MIGHT be totally wrong here...

(probably really wrong in assuming it was directed at me in the first place!)

>From what I can tell about SuSEconfig, it is run automatically after you update
or change a system w/Yast or Yast2. Just installing an rpm doesn't necessarily
trigger it, unless of course you do that from within Yast/Yast2. I've installed
rpms outside of YAST/2 but the don't seem to show up in var/adm/SuSEconfig files
until I run SuSEconfig. On the otherhand i've installed some stuff from tar
files and they never show up in any of the var/adm/SuSEconfig files.

So, w/o digging into the workings of SuSEconfig more I guess I don't see that it
will do what you want.

The command w/options is:

  SuSEconfig [--quick|--nonewpackage|--force|--verbose] [--module name]

-jhb-

From:      Keith Antoine <kantoine at bigpond.net.au>
> Seem to remember you use Suse, so what do you do after installing a tarball?
> When installing an rpm it calls Suseconfig but not after a tarball, so what is 
> the cmd to call SUSEconfig? or do you?