The archive you have been using, http://mirror.datapipe.net/fedoralegacy/redhat/9/os/i386 , doesn't seem to have been updated since Feb. 27, 2003. Maybe up2date would be useful if you got it to look instead in the repository set up for use by yum, http://download.fedora.us/fedora/redhat/9/i386/yum/updates/RPMS/ yum is a facility with the same purpose as up2date, keeping software up-to-date. It seems to be replacing up2date. I'll bet if you copied it from the place I gave, installed it, and gave as root the command "yum update", you'd get all the updates you missed during the past two years. Your system may have been quite vulnerable for a long time. Steven Yellin On Thu, 24 Feb 2005, Ralph E. Kenyon, Jr. wrote: > On Wed, 23 Feb 2005 20:49:06 -0800 (PST), Steven J. Yellin > <yellin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > I recommend installing yum-2.0.3-0.fdr.1.rh90.noarch.rpm from, say, > > http://public.planetmirror.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/9/i386/RPMS.stable/ > > After installing it, you can do "man yum" and "man yum.conf" to start > > learning how to use it. "yum update" should do a lot for you. > > I have been using up2date with > http://mirror.datapipe.net/fedoralegacy/redhat/9/os/i386 > > I generally run up2date after seeing some legacy update notices containing > redhat 9. > So far, everything seems to be going fine. > > rpm -q yum says package yum is not installed. > What's all this "yum" talk? > > my /etc/sysconfig/rhn/sources file contains > yum rh9-base http://mirror.datapipe.net/fedoralegacy/redhat/9/os/i386 > yum updates http://mirror.datapipe.net/fedoralegacy/redhat/9/updates/i386 > > what's the difference between up2date and yum? > > Am I missing stuff by continuing to use up2date? > > > > -- > Ralph E. Kenyon, Jr. > http://www.xenodochy.org/ralph.html > 191 White Oaks Road > Williamstown, MA 01267-2259 > Phone: 413-458-3597 > > Home pages: > http://www.xenodochy.org > http://www.ballroomdances.org > ------------------------------------------------------- > FIGHT SPAM http://www.xenodochy.org/diogenes/antispam.html > (If you are thinking about collecting my email address, read the above > page first!) > -------------------------------------------------------- > Keep our semantic environments and cyberspace clean. > Always report errors discovered while surfing the web. > ------------------------------------------------------ > My favorite saying (from general semantics): > It's not that seeing is believing, believing is seeing, > and we're much better at believing than we are at seeing. > http://www.xenodochy.org/ex/quotes/santayana.html > > -- > Shrike-list mailing list > Shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/shrike-list > -- Shrike-list mailing list Shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/shrike-list
