up2date's yum-mirror directive question

William Hooper whooperhsd3 at earthlink.net
Fri Nov 19 02:30:10 UTC 2004


Jorge Fábregas said:
> On Thursday 18 November 2004 3:25 pm, William Hooper wrote:
>
>> 2) So that rhn-applet still has a place to look without doing a fetch
>> of the mirror list.
>
> That's a good one I haven't thought of. I wonder:  does the rhn-applet
> looks for any particular channel in /etc/sysconfig/rhn/sources?

Nope

> On my
> previous post you'll see that the only channel I had was called "updates".

No channel with just the base FC channels?  That makes it hard to use
"up2date -i" to install new packages.

> What if I
> add two or three more channels? Which one would select the rhn-applet?

rhn-applet looks at them all.

> Thanks William for always helping with my up2date related questions :)

No problem. :-)

-- 
William Hooper




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