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
why not just set up a cronjob once a day/nite or something if you want
to be on top of updates that close... just a little yum -y update thing
as root
