RHN subscription

Paul Howarth paul at city-fan.org
Fri Sep 2 13:12:13 UTC 2005


Jeff Vian wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-09-02 at 07:25 +0100, Paul Howarth wrote:
> 
>>On Thu, 2005-09-01 at 15:40 -0500, Jeff Vian wrote:
>>
>>>On Thu, 2005-09-01 at 03:39 +0930, Tim wrote:
>>>
>>>>On Wed, 2005-08-31 at 16:25 +0100, Paul Howarth wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>If you want to check for updates, try "yum check-update" instead.
>>>>
>>>>Which takes several minutes to complete (fetch new information, and
>>>>parse local files, etc.).  Yet RHN would let you know in a few seconds
>>>>that there were some updates, and would only go through the long process
>>>>of working out what, *if* you wanted to follow it up.
>>>>
>>>>I miss that aspect of RHN.
>>>>
>>>
>>>The RHN alert icon is on the panel for me by default.  All it takes is a
>>>few seconds to configure it and it works to do exactly what you suggest.
>>
>>Except in FC4 the applet doesn't work with the default repos (repomd
>>format) and the only way of getting it to work (i.e. to tell you when
>>there are updates available without actually running up2date) is by
>>rolling your own repos with old-fashioned metadata. If you know of a way
>>to actually make it work, please let us know!
>>
>>Paul.
> 
> 
> Now I am really puzzled.  I 'know' that it was working for me at some
> time in the past on FC4.  Because of this thread I just checked the icon
> again and found that in fact it is not working now.  Either I am
> misremembering, or it did work and now does not.  More research
> required,  Drat!

You might want to check out:

http://bugzilla.redhat.com/160873
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2005-July/msg02190.html

Paul.




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