I've taken to using Red Carpet and the Open-carpet.org repos for my package maintainence. The only thing that I still use up2date for is the kernel, since red-carpet seems to freak out on some of the kernel scriptlets (it deleted my entire grub.conf file for some reason, and I had to rebuild it by hand). On Mon, 2004-01-19 at 06:15, Charles McColm wrote: > On Sun, 2004-01-18 at 15:01, Andre Meyer wrote: > > The Red Hat Network Updater applet now supports yum (but not apt), > > fortunately. However, it only shows upgradeable packages and not new > > I've pretty much stopped using up2date & up2date-nox for updating. I > find up2date has a tendency to puke (still using dialup) if I try to use > it to update a larger package (i.e. kernel). Instead I use the > rhn-applet to look at the list of updates, then get them via ftp from a > mirror - it saves a lot of time! The mirror I was on last night to > update my kernel-source clicked along between 5-7 kb/s, great for my > 33.6k modem which averages 2-3kb/s. > > The disadvantage of ftp is that it's not https, but I'm not running a > mission critical system. (I suppose it is to me, but not to anyone else) > > I too wouldn't mind seeing "new" packages showing up in rhn-applet. The > FC team might also want to build in a list of https mirrors (if they > exist) into up2date, it would lighten the load on the Red Hat server. I > know end users can do this, but if it's part of up2date-config then > maybe users will take the time to change it. > > Cheers, > > Charles > http://members.porchlight.ca/charm -- Link Dupont <link@xxxxxxxxxx>
