up2date vs rhn-applet-gui

[Daniel Veillard]

On Wed, Feb 11, 2004 at 04:21:59PM -0500, William Hooper wrote:
> 
> Christoph Wickert said:
> > Am Mi, den 11.02.2004 schrieb Marc Williams um 21:33:
> >> 2) What is the purpose of https://xmlrpc.rhn.redhat.com/XMLRPC showing
> >> up as a RHN server in up2date-config?  It doesn't seem to do anything.
> >
> > IMO you are right here: It doesn't do anything and is a relict of
> > pre-fedora-times.
> 
> IIUC RHEL and Fedora use the same code base for rhn-applet and up2date. 
> Since Fedora doesn't have a RHN channel it doesn't do anything, but it
> needs to be there for RHEL that does have a RHN channel.

  Exact. I actually have machines subscribed to RHN who use both
the RHN channel and yum repositories for updates. This of course requires
the updated versions of up2date and rhn-applet.

Daniel

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