On Sat, 2004-11-06 at 13:22, Jos Vos wrote: > 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? Mostly hangs when downloading packages. > 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 don't know how it works in xoslinux, but in my fedora boxes I don't use it because it used to fail, and also because I'm happy with yum. > > 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. I mean one "Launch Yum" button instead of the "Launch up2date" button on the rhn notification tool dialog :) > 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). Will take a look at them, thanks. But from the http://xoslinux.org front page it seems you also had some issues with up2date :) ITOH to install those packages in my boxes is not a solution for me, as it will be overriden with fedora's ones on next update. -- Iago Rubio
