Yum'ification of the rhn_applet

Jaap A. Haitsma jaap_haitsma at zonnet.nl
Wed Oct 15 20:23:14 UTC 2003


Daniel Veillard wrote:
>   I have just released an updated version of rhn_applet which
> should work better for the Fedora framework:
>    - handle Yum repositories
>    - handle multiple repositories
>    - does not require RHN registration
> 
>   You can find it at:
>     http://people.redhat.com/~veillard/testing/yum/rhn-applet/2.1.0/
> the Yum/Fedora repository for it is:
>     http://people.redhat.com/~veillard/testing/yum/rhn-applet/
> It uses the same configuration file as up2date, i.e. 
>     /etc/sysconfig/rhn/sources
> 
> Features:
>    - do some caching on the client see ~/.rhn-applet/*.yum
>    - tries to limit the load on servers to a minimal amount
>    - the applet does not need to be restarted if sources are
>      added or removed from /etc/sysconfig/rhn/sources
>    - should be able to handle HTTPS connections
> 
> TODO:
>    - HTTP(S) proxy support (easy)
>    - FTP support
>    - better error reporting when source are unavailable
> 
>    Feedback welcome,
> 
> Daniel
> 

Hi Daniel,

It works for me. Nice that the update applet now finally tells you when 
there are updates :-) One minor remark up2date tells me that all the 
files of the update are 0kB. Is this due to yum or is there a bug??

Jaap





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