It is my understanding that with the up2date that comes with fc3/4 that it uses yum for it's repos. I had noticed the same thing when changing some of my repo locations and did a little digging in other forums as well. I had found that the up2date is the same as yum with regards to using the same repositories. I think the only main difference that I could tell is that up2date has a visual tool for the linux desktop and yum is more of a command line program. You are correct in your observation though. They both use the same so putting it in the source is mundane. As far as toggling it I don't know I didn't get that far into it. I noticed that it worked and since I have the box I work with setup for both visual tools and remote commands I left them both enabled. Glen Vickers BSIT -----Original Message----- From: yum-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:yum-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Steven Stromer Sent: Wednesday, September 07, 2005 8:52 AM To: yum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [Yum] relationship between up2date and yum repos Dear Group, I hope I am posting to the most appropriate group. There doesn't seem to be a list for up2date, so I'm hoping some of you are using Fedora. I am under the understanding that in versions of Fedora previous to FC4, one had to add new repositories manually to /etc/sysconfig/rhn/sources in order for them to appear as available channels in up2date (at least, this is what my reading so far indicates). However, in FC4, it seems that by simply adding a new .repo file to the /etc/yum.repos.d directory, the repository becomes available as a new channel in up2date. This is a good thing, I would assume. In my case, I was adding the Dag Wieers Repository, and when I added a dag.repo file to /etc/yum.repos.d, it automatically appeared as a 'repomd' channel in up2date. When I next added a yum pointer to the same repository in my sources file, the dag repository appeared twice in up2date, once as a 'repomd' channel, and once as a 'yum' channel. Am I correct in my observations? If so, would I be correct to assume that it is not necessary to add the yum pointer to my sources file, since that the same repository become listed as two separate channels in up2date? If up2date is actively looking for .repo files in the /etc/yum.repos.d directory, can this action be toggled on or off in any up2date configuration file? Finally, (and this is probably a REAL newbie question) when I use up2date now that the dag repo has been added, it appears that some installed packages are looking to the dag repository for updates, when the original packages came from the fedora base and extras repos. If I want my system to look to the fedora repositories ONLY for updates to these packages, is this possible? Even when I uncheck the dag channel before retrieving the list of available package updates, it appears that some of the packages want to be updated from dag. Have I already allowed dag to update some packages that had to be installed due to dependencies on the one package I really wanted from dag, thus 'giving them over' to dag for control? I've searched unsuccessfully for answers to these questions. If the answers are already posted somewhere, please just point me in the right direction. Thanks, Steven Stromer _______________________________________________ Yum mailing list Yum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.dulug.duke.edu/mailman/listinfo/yum
