Inspecting a 64 bit SLES 10 system - unsupported workaround

SLES 10 inspection is not supported

By default, SLES 10 is not supported by machinery. If you need to inspect a SLES 10 system nevertheless, this document gives you a description of a workaround.

What is missing

A default SLES 10 system is lacking the zypper packages which are used for inspecting the target. In order to be able to inspect a SLES 10 installation, you will need to install zypper somehow to get its functionality.

Installing zypper for machinery on SLES 10

The major problem with zypper on SLES 10 is that installing zypper from a newer distribution will pull in a huge number of dependency packages. This will change the system you want to inspect. A possible workaround for that issue is the use of the 32 bit zypper package. It will only install additional 32bit packages that then can be filtered in the inspection, thus getting a system manifest without the additionally installed packages.