up2date package(s) available

[glm]

Paul W. Frields wrote:

>Due to having a few minutes free the other night, I've done a quick
>tweak to up2date that should allow folks using RHL9 to have up2date
>function as it does on FC1, using fedoralegacy.org yum/apt sources. To
>say this was quick and dirty would be giving me a lot more credit than
>is deserved. 
>
>The helpful folks at #fedora-legacy inform me that this is not a
>priority for FL, which I understand. However, since there is probably an
>audience (however small) for this tweak, I thought it was worthwhile to
>at least tell Google about it here.
>
>Most folks would probably simply use yum/apt either when they feel like
>it, or in a nightly cron job. I suppose that this tweak, though, would
>cover at least some combination of the following: (1) Linux newbies who
>aren't into RPM building; (2) those who don't maintain a broadband
>connection full-time, or are on segregated networks where they are still
>running RHL 9 servers and/or workstations (as I do); and (3) those who
>would like their rhn-applet to function as in FC1. Hopefully that comes
>to a total of more than 1 or 2 people. :-)
>
>rhnlib and rhn-applet are simply recompiled from the latest stable FC1
>SRPMS, while up2date has a few simple patches to insure the Fedora
>Legacy public key is available in addition to the Red Hat key. Of
>course, it's up to users to be good netizens and replace the repo URLs
>in /etc/sysconfig/rhn/sources with mirror sites.
>
>This basically worksforme, but I would love people to try it out and
>make suggestions, or provide po stuff for the couple messages I changed.
>You may simply be able to install the rhnlib and rhn-applet packages
>from FC1 updates on your RHL9 box; I haven't tried it. I realize the
>fedora-legacy-list probably doesn't want any traffic on a non-official
>package. Therefore, unless there's an objection, please direct comments
>off-list.
>
>BINARY:
>http://paul.frields.org/rhnlib-1.4-1.noarch.rpm
>http://paul.frields.org/rhn-applet-2.1.2-1.i386.rpm
>http://paul.frields.org/up2date-4.1.21-3.1.i386.rpm
>http://paul.frields.org/up2date-gnome-4.1.21-3.1.i386.rpm
>
>SRPMS:
>http://paul.frields.org/up2date-4.1.21-3.1.src.rpm
>
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Thanks Paul for the good work
Regards from Australia
Glynn.
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