Can up2date be completely turned off without removing it?

[William Hooper]

Nifty Hat Mitch said:
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> yum like up2date is a tool for fetching rpm packages. Think of it as a
> front end.
> 
> Both use rpm to do the actual install.
> 
> 
> The 'yum protocol' is well suited for the distributed mirror
> tricks and now up2date also includes yum along with http and ftp as
> 'protocols' to define how a mirror presents packages it fetches.

Not quite.  Yum is a metadata format (a data format for the RPM data).  The new thing about up2date is that it now understands yum and apt metadata formats along with understanding the RHN format.  Apt, yum, and up2date all use http and ftp protocols.

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William Hooper