up2date as front-end for yum

[Satish Balay]

On Thu, 18 Nov 2004, Timothy Murphy wrote:

> I saw that Fedora tracker <http://www.fedoratracker.org> says that
> up2date can be used as a "frontend" to yum.
> 
> How, exactly, does one do that?
> Please assume you are speaking to an up2date ignoramus.
> Which files exactly do I need to edit?

I don't think I'll call 'up2date' as a front-end to 'yum'.

However - up2date can USE 'yum repositories' - along with 'apt
repositories' & 'rhn', do its magic - and resolve dependencies - and
perform installs/updates & other functions.

Check /etc/sysconfig/rhn/sources - and read the comments.

Satish