up2date connects to xmlrpc.rhn.redhat.com? necessary?

[Rainer Traut]

Hi,

Alexander Dalloz wrote:

> With "../rhn/sources" you mean /etc/sysconfig/rhn/sources?
Yes.

>>But it seems up2date hangs if it cannot connect to
>>xmlrpc.rhn.redhat.com

> The actual official up2date package for FC1 can not handle RHN channels.
> Comment "up2date default" with a leading # in /etc/sysconfig/rhn/sources
> file.
I have no "up2date default" in my /etc/sysconfig/rhn/sources
It was the one in my initial post.

>>strace of up2date
>>connect(5, {sa_family=AF_INET, sin_port=htons(443), 
>>sin_addr=inet_addr("66.187.232.101")}, 16 <unfinished ...>
>>
>>Then up2date hangs.

> Do not use up2date with RHN.
Never wanted to do so...

>>Here is my sources file:
>>### an yum style repo
>>### format:
>>### type  channel-label     url
> 
> 
> [ snipped yum.conf parts ]
which yum.conf parts?!
This was /etc/sysconfig/rhn/sources

> up2date does not use yum and the yum.conf. up2date requires a valid
> /etc/sysconfig/rhn/sources file.
This was not valid? Why?

Rainer