Gui Yum -- Where?

[Temlakos]

Tony Nelson wrote:
> At 12:30 PM -0500 7/5/05, Mike McCarty wrote:
> 
>>Paul Howarth wrote:
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>>>Benjamin Sher wrote:
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>>>>Is there a gui version of yum?
>>>
>>[snip]
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>>>kyum and yumex are both available in Fedora Extras for FC4 and can be
>>>installed using yum install ...
>>>
>>>For RHEL4 I would just stick to using up2date.
>>>
>>>Paul.
>>>
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>>I heard that there were several defects in up2date for FC4. Can anyone
>>verify?

I can.

The blue dot with the checkmark always presents that innocent-looking 
appearance. Even when updates are available on the channels on which 
up2date listens, that little blue checkmark doesn't change. I would have 
expected to see a throbbing read screamer ("exclamation point").

But the one time I launched up2date, it seemed to draw all the repo 
metadata on all channels that I had set up that way. A /repomd/ 
(repository metadata) channel follows the instructions given in a 
corresponding .repo file in /etc/yum.repos.d/. So you /can/ get updates. 
But you have to remember to launch up2date, or yum, or smart, every 
morning to stay up to date.

I use smart, myself. I took the tarball from http://www.smartpm.org/ and 
ran make and make rpm, and then I installed the rpm. That allows me to 
recognize smart as part of the rpm installed base. But I also have 
yumex, and yes, Fedora Extras /does/ have it.

I think smart is going to take over very rapidly. With it, I can set 
definite preferences for repositories that might create compatibility 
issues, make sure that compatibility conflicts do not occur, and even 
/repair/ any such issues that come about through the use of other 
packages. But the developer will need to write a script to put smart 
into the GNOME menu. (How /do/ you add something to the menus? I can add 
applications to panels, but not to menus--or rather, I'm missing the 
procedure for doing that.)

Temlakos