Re: up2date not automatic

[Dennis Calhoun <dcalhoun blomand net>]

On Wed, 24 Dec 2003 01:04:49 +0000, you wrote:

>On Wednesday 24 December 2003 00:45, Dennis Calhoun wrote:
> 
>> >
>> >up2date --nox -i yum
[snip]
>
>This isn't a way to run yum.  This is a way, via up2date, to install 
>the yum RPM. 

Well, see what I know? not much  :)
anyway, when I tried to do that i got an error, but i dont recall what
it was and am not doing email from that machine yet. maybe i needed
more info to begin with, like do i need to "exit the applet" before
running that command?

I'll try to do that again and post the error i get.

>
>Since you didn't have yum installed on your RH9 system there was no 
>need to install yum when you upgraded from RH9 to Fedora. On the 
>other hand the up2date utility was upgraded to use yum repositories 
>instead of RHN repositories.
>
>In short, there is no need to install yum if you plan to use up2date 
>to keep your system current.

Well, I can partially understand that, but.... my existing updated
up2date does not work right, as i told about in my reply to Daniel
Veillard.

>I do not run yum, I run up2date to update from a yum repository. My 
>/etc/sysconfig/rhn/sources file looks like this:
>
>===BEGIN================
>#up2date default
>
>yum fedora-core-1 http://fedora.redhat.com/releases/fedora-core-1
>
>yum updates-released 
>ftp://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora/core/updates/1/i386
>===END=THREE=LINES=======
>
>In order to see if your system is configured properly, what happens 
>when you run?:
>
>up2date --nox -u --dry-run

I'll check that soon too and post of it here. Thanks for your help!


--
Dennis C.