On Thu, 2006-04-27 at 00:14 -0500, Johnny Hughes wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-04-27 at 00:37 -0400, Jos? Alburquerque wrote:
> > Hi all. I have a simple question: CentOS relies mostly on "yum" to
> > keep systems up to date, although I understand that like on RHEL,
> > "up2date" is also available. On my system I've run both KDE and GNOME
> > as Graphical Desktops under X (though I presently run GNOME), and I've
> > noticed that there is an applet called "CentOS Network Alert Icon" (from
> > the "System Tools" menu) which when run appears in a "status area" in a
> > panel to show whether the system needs updating or not. This applet
> > shows the up2date sources, but my question is: Is there any way to have
> > some sort of similar applet that does this for yum. I just think that
> > when we add repos we usually add them through yum. Also when we update
> > the system we usually use yum. Hence I think it would be better to use
> > an applet similar to up2date's for yum so that there is no need to edit
> > both yum and up2date files and there is consistency between when the
> > applet signals a need for updating and the actual "yum update" command.
> > Am I making sense?
> >
> > I found a site (http://fedoranews.org/tchung/yum-applet/) with the
> > source for a yum applet. I know I can build this for myself, but I was
> > wondering what others on this list think and whether such an applet
> > should be more widely available to the general CentOS audience. Can I
> > go ahead and build this for my system? TIA for your answers.
> >
> > Sincerely
> > Jose Alburquerque
>
> The best I can tell that still uses up2date's /etc/sysconfig/rhn/sources
> file to check for updates ... it just launched GYUM instead of up2date
> for doing the updates.
> _______________________________________________
This will probably become what you want, though I'm not sure how well it
works now:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/YumApplet
Thanks,
Johnny Hughes
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