<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> <title></title> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> Ricardo Veguilla wrote: <blockquote cite="mid1099780363.4374.15.camel@ricardo.veguilla.net" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">On Sat, 2004-11-06 at 23:04 +0100, Iago Rubio wrote: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">On Sat, 2004-11-06 at 13:22, Jos Vos wrote: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">On Sat, Nov 06, 2004 at 01:10:09PM +0100, Iago Rubio wrote: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">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). </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap="">What are the bugs you encounter? </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap="">Mostly hangs when downloading packages. </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> Yep, it also happened to me, many times up2date was just unresponsive (i.e. it appeared to be hanged). </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">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. </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> I don't know if or how up2date was improved post FC2 but I'm running rawhide and up2date has been very reliable. I was able to upgrade my system without problems with up2date during the early yum 2.1.x unstable periods. </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <blockquote type="cite"> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">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` :) </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap="">What do you mean with "interface the rhn applet with yum"? Rhn-applet works fine with yum repositories. </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap="">I mean one "Launch Yum" button instead of the "Launch up2date" button on the rhn notification tool dialog :) </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> You can try this[1]: GYUM: Graphical User Interface for YUM <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://fedoranews.org/tchung/gyum/">http://fedoranews.org/tchung/gyum/</a> HOWTO build GYUM Alert Icon (yum-applet) [2] <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://fedoranews.org/tchung/yum-applet/">http://fedoranews.org/tchung/yum-applet/</a> </pre> </blockquote> Nice tool this gyum. It has features very welcome, listing all the packages, removing one by one, and so on... <blockquote cite="mid1099780363.4374.15.camel@ricardo.veguilla.net" type="cite"> <pre wrap=""> I'm not sure, but I don't think it will work with the latest yum (2.1.x). </pre> </blockquote> I've compiled it on FC3 test 3, and is working perfectly with the latest version of yum. <blockquote cite="mid1099780363.4374.15.camel@ricardo.veguilla.net" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">[1] I did, and now I appreciate up2date even more. [2] This is a partial hacked version of the rhn-applet. IIRC, you can instll or use both (rhn-applet and yum-applet) at the same time. </pre> </blockquote> And here is working better then up2date, because i was updating almost 1 by 1 the packages because up2date hang up if i chosed all, or a big number, With gyum until now i had no problem. Nando </body> </html>