up2date vs. yum

[Tony Nelson]

At 10:36 PM -0600 1/10/06, J.Moore wrote:
>On Tue, 2006-01-10 at 22:11 -0500, Matthew Saltzman wrote:
>
>> > The "blinking icon" works just fine.  There's no reason to uninstall
>> > it.  You'll probably never catch it blinking if you have the yum
>> > nightly update service enabled, but it does accurately detect when you
>> > need to install patches.
>>
>> No, in FC4 it doesn't.  up2date works fine (except with livna), yum works
>> fine, but the RHN applet apparently doesn't read the current format for
>> repository metadata, so it won't detect when updates are needed.  And
>> there doesn't seem to be a way of preventing it from starting on login
>> short of removing the RPM.
>
>FWIW, it doesn't work properly in FC3 either... up2date quit working
>reliably several months ago, so I began using 'yum update'. The
>'blinking icon' stopped working properly about the same time. It mostly
>stays blue (meaning no updates available/needed) now, although it will
>turn red occasionally *during* the 'yum update' process.

Works for me.  The updates it offers match up well with the FedoraNews FC3
update list.  Probably something is stuck on yours, I would guess in
Up2date somewhere.  Man up2date may be helpful in suggesting what files
might be corrupt.
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