up2date behavior

[Doug Brott]

Daniel Veillard wrote:

>On Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 07:47:53AM -0500, Law Horne wrote:
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>>Several people on this list have commented about registering with red 
>>hat for Fedora. Now when I click on the up2date applet it ask me if I 
>>want to register but never really does. It just goes through the motion 
>>of checking for updates on the configured channels I have.
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>  See http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=109502
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>Daniel
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I was initially dismayed that rhn-applet phoned home to check *AND* required you to register to do it.  It didn't quite make sense.  I simply removed it from my installation and did not use it.  After reviewing these messages, I have downloaded the "pre-release" version that Daniel posted.

This version of rhn-applet works for me.  I created my on yum repositories mirrored from the updates at Redhat and I do not have http redirects on my server.  I am not experiencing the problems that some people are.  I plan on using my local yum repositories to update workstation installation of FC1.  Although the up2date setup is a little different with FC1 than RH9, I'm actually finding it to be less complicated with FC1.

My suggestion would be to make this version of rhn-applet available in the updates as soon as possible.  Registration confusion will only get worse the more people start using FC1.

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Doug Brott
brott at redh.com