RHN Updater

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I've taken to using Red Carpet and the Open-carpet.org repos for my
package maintainence. The only thing that I still use up2date for is the
kernel, since red-carpet seems to freak out on some of the kernel
scriptlets (it deleted my entire grub.conf file for some reason, and I
had to rebuild it by hand).

On Mon, 2004-01-19 at 06:15, Charles McColm wrote:
> On Sun, 2004-01-18 at 15:01, Andre Meyer wrote:
> > The Red Hat Network Updater applet now supports yum (but not apt),
> > fortunately. However, it only shows upgradeable packages and not new
> 
> I've pretty much stopped using up2date & up2date-nox for updating. I
> find up2date has a tendency to puke (still using dialup) if I try to use
> it to update a larger package (i.e. kernel). Instead I use the
> rhn-applet to look at the list of updates, then get them via ftp from a
> mirror - it saves a lot of time! The mirror I was on last night to
> update my kernel-source clicked along between 5-7 kb/s, great for my
> 33.6k modem which averages 2-3kb/s.
> 
> The disadvantage of ftp is that it's not https, but I'm not running a
> mission critical system. (I suppose it is to me, but not to anyone else)
> 
> I too wouldn't mind seeing "new" packages showing up in rhn-applet. The
> FC team might also want to build in a list of https mirrors (if they
> exist) into up2date, it would lighten the load on the Red Hat server. I
> know end users can do this, but if it's part of up2date-config then
> maybe users will take the time to change it.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Charles
> http://members.porchlight.ca/charm
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