Does pirut and yuum really work in FC6

Aaron Konstam akonstam at sbcglobal.net
Mon Nov 6 13:06:55 UTC 2006


On Mon, 2006-11-06 at 04:44 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> Aaron Konstam wrote:
> > On Sun, 2006-11-05 at 18:59 +0000, Anne Wilson wrote:
> >> On Sunday 05 November 2006 18:50, Aaron Konstam wrote:
> >>> My contention is still that one of these programs is screwing this up
> >>> but we will see. If no one else finds this happening to them I will have
> >>> to concede that I am  wrong. We will see.
> >>>
> >> I haven't seen anyone else report this, Aaron, and it certainly didn't happen 
> >> to me.  I'm using yum both for installing packages and updating, and haven't 
> >> had any problems at all.
> >>
> >> Anne
> > But are you also allowing the pirut automatic updates to take place? I
> > think that is what got me in trouble.
> 
> Pirut doesnt have any capability to do updates and certainly not 
> automatic updates. Pup can do updates but not auto updates. You can in 
> Fedora Core 6 configure yum-updatesd to automatically do updates but 
> that feature is not working due to a bug.
> 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=212507

Well it may not be doing updates but every once in a while I get a message that there are updates available
and it pretends to do updates. In addition it reports unfound
dependencies. It also I am convinced removed the gnome-session file so
GNOME was no longer available.
--
=======================================================================
"If you ever want to get anywhere in politics, my boy, you're going to
have to get a toehold in the public eye."
=======================================================================
Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam at sbcglobal.net




More information about the fedora-list mailing list