Thanks for the quick reply. It appears that rhn-applet-tui does not use the .rhn-applet.conf "IgnorePackages" line. Here is what I did for a test on a RH 8.0 system: 1. Replaced gnuplot with gnuplot-3.7.1-17 from RH 7.3 2. Started Xwindows 3. Looked at the window from rhn-applet-gui. It stated there was a newer version of gnuplot, as it should. 4. I instructed rhn-applet-gui to ignore gnuplot. 5. Tested rhn-applet-gui again -- it showed no packages needed updating 6. Exited out of Xwindows 7. Looked at ~/.rhn-applet.conf Here is the relevant line: IgnoredPackages=gnuplot 8. ran rhn-applet-tui Here are the results: $ rhn-applet-tui could not figure out kernel The following is a list of outdated packages on your system: Name Version Release -------------------------------------------------------------------- gnuplot 3.7.2 1 (The kernel message is expected because I am running 2.4.19) 9. Help ... rhn-applet-tui doesn't seem to ignore packages that it should. I am not using up2date because this sysem will become a configuration controlled computer and several tests will need to be run and checked both before and after any updates are applied. (I guess if rhn-applet-tui won't work, I could use up2date with --dry-run or --nodownload, but rhn-applet-tui is just what I need.) Richard rruth@computer.org ============ rhn-applet-tui and rhn-applet-gui use the .rhn-applet.conf file in your home directory to know which pkgs to ignore. (different preferences per user) Why don't you use up2date -u to update your system? Then you can use up2date-config to configure all the options, including which pkgs to ignore. Cheers, Tammy On Mon, Oct 14, 2002 at 09:24:39AM -0700, rruth@computer.org wrote: > > For a system that usually does not run XWindows, I would like to use > rhn-applet-tui to see if there are any updates available on the RH 8.0 system. > rhn-applet-tui seems to work well from cron. I have one question: > > How to I tell rhn-applet-tui to ignore certain rpm packages? (This can easily > be done using rhn-applet-gui but I am not running XWindows. Can I somehow get > rhn-applet-tui to use the rhn-applet-gui exclude list?) > > Richard > rruth@comnputer.org > > -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
