Re: RHupdates and http?

[Paul Nasrat <pnasrat redhat com>]

On Thu, 2005-09-22 at 17:27 -0400, Joshua Jensen wrote:
> Cool!  But it doesn't actually work in RHEL4 :-( updates.img gets
> downloaded and loopback mounted to /tmp/updates, but packages there
> don't get applied.  I made the updates.img for RHEL4 U2 beta, and put
> the kernel*-17*rpm packages in it.  After the install was down I can rpm
> -Fvh kernel*rpm against the very same set of packages and I get my
> kernel upgraded, so I don't think this is a dependancy issue with
> anaconda... it just doesn't work.

updates.img/RHupdates is for anaconda python sources, modules and shared
library updates - *not* package updates.

This is clearly stated in the docs

Paul