Due to having a few minutes free the other night, I've done a quick tweak to up2date that should allow folks using RHL9 to have up2date function as it does on FC1, using fedoralegacy.org yum/apt sources. To say this was quick and dirty would be giving me a lot more credit than is deserved. The helpful folks at #fedora-legacy inform me that this is not a priority for FL, which I understand. However, since there is probably an audience (however small) for this tweak, I thought it was worthwhile to at least tell Google about it here. Most folks would probably simply use yum/apt either when they feel like it, or in a nightly cron job. I suppose that this tweak, though, would cover at least some combination of the following: (1) Linux newbies who aren't into RPM building; (2) those who don't maintain a broadband connection full-time, or are on segregated networks where they are still running RHL 9 servers and/or workstations (as I do); and (3) those who would like their rhn-applet to function as in FC1. Hopefully that comes to a total of more than 1 or 2 people. :-) rhnlib and rhn-applet are simply recompiled from the latest stable FC1 SRPMS, while up2date has a few simple patches to insure the Fedora Legacy public key is available in addition to the Red Hat key. Of course, it's up to users to be good netizens and replace the repo URLs in /etc/sysconfig/rhn/sources with mirror sites. This basically worksforme, but I would love people to try it out and make suggestions, or provide po stuff for the couple messages I changed. You may simply be able to install the rhnlib and rhn-applet packages from FC1 updates on your RHL9 box; I haven't tried it. I realize the fedora-legacy-list probably doesn't want any traffic on a non-official package. Therefore, unless there's an objection, please direct comments off-list. BINARY: http://paul.frields.org/rhnlib-1.4-1.noarch.rpm http://paul.frields.org/rhn-applet-2.1.2-1.i386.rpm http://paul.frields.org/up2date-4.1.21-3.1.i386.rpm http://paul.frields.org/up2date-gnome-4.1.21-3.1.i386.rpm SRPMS: http://paul.frields.org/up2date-4.1.21-3.1.src.rpm All signed by me; my GPG key is available, among other places, at: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?search=paul%40frields.com&op=index Fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 -- Paul W. Frields, RHCE
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