Re: up2date reports system is always up to date??

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On Sun, 2005-10-02 at 11:56 -0700, oldman wrote:
> Ian Pilcher wrote:
> 
> >oldman wrote:
> >  
> >
> >>   The problem is in the rhn applet.  When fedora moved up2date to use
> >>yum repositories the applet was not told how to read the new style
> >>headers.  As a result you don't get informed.  As you may know up2date
> >>still works and will tell you what is ready when you click on the applet
> >>and select to start update.  Hopefully this will be resolved for FC5.
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >What makes you think this will be fixed in FC5?  The bug has been open
> >for several months, without any response from the developers.  AFAICT,
> >they simply don't care.
> >
> >  
> >
>     Perhaps you didn't see the word hopefully?  Seriously though, it has 
> seemed to me that there has been little work done on this and it is 
> possible that up2date will be dropped.  I really got my hopes up when 
> they released an update for it in rawhide the other day, but alas, 
> didn't fix the problem.

I guess it is time to use YUM.
Is there a supported GUI front-End to yum?

I really like the up2date gui front-end.


Thanks,
Ernesto



> 
> Scott
> 

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