On Sat, Nov 06, 2004 at 01:10:09PM +0100, Iago Rubio wrote: > I don't think yum should merge with up2date. Yum bypasses up2date > functionality right now and frankly I don't use up2date ever because > it's still buggy (On my FC1 and FC2 systems). What are the bugs you encounter? The only real problem I know of is the zero-size overview in up2date due to the fact that yum's header.info file does not include package sizes. I have solved this for X/OS Linux (<http://www.xoslinux.org/, a rebuild of RHEL3) by adding a backward-compatible enhancement to yum-arch and some changes to up2date, and now up2date and yum repositories seem to work fine. > I'd really like to interface the rhn applet with yum, or at least to > make it configurable so you could launch your preferred update command - > in my case `xterm -e yum update` :) What do you mean with "interface the rhn applet with yum"? Rhn-applet works fine with yum repositories. See <http://download.xoslinux.org/pub/xoslinux/3/i386/release/SRPMS/> for my versions of yum, up2date, rhnlib and rhn-applet (all these packages are originally the FC2 versions) for X/OS Linux 3 (see the package's changelogs for a description of the changes). Cheers, -- -- Jos Vos <jos@xxxxxx> -- X/OS Experts in Open Systems BV | Phone: +31 20 6938364 -- Amsterdam, The Netherlands | Fax: +31 20 6948204
