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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