Up2date problem

[Paul Howarth]

jim lawrence wrote:
> On Apr 1, 2005 10:20 AM, William Hooper <whooperhsd3 at earthlink.net> wrote:
> 
>>Kam Leo said:
>>
>>
>>>You encountered what I consider one of the biggest annoyances with
>>>up2date.  You get notification about available updates, run up2date, and
>>>the repository and/or mirror from mirrorlist has not gotten resynced..
>>>
>>>So here are some possible actions that you can take:
>>>
>>>
>>>1. Do not react immediately upon receiving an update notification.
>>>Wait several hours before trying so that the mirrors can sync up.
>>>2. Disable the update agent.  Perform updates manually or update via a
>>>cron job.
>>>3. File either an RFE or a bug report in Bugzzilla,
>>>https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/ .
>>
>>4. Configure up2date to use a fast mirror for you rather than relying on
>>the default mirror list.  If up2date and rhn-applet are looking at the
>>same mirror you won't have any problem.
>>
>>--
>>William Hooper
> 
> Or change the RHn up2daet applet to reflect yum 
> First grab gyum 
> http://fedoranews.org/tchung/gyum/2.0/fc3/2.0-5/
> then grab the applet 
> http://fedoranews.org/tchung/gyum/2.0/gyum-applet/
> right click the RHN applet and exit it 
> then go to system tools and choose gyum-update alert icon 

Unfortunately gyum doesn't work with repos defined in /etc/yum.repos.d 
(they have to be merged in with yum.conf) and so this isn't a very good 
solution for FC3.

Making yum, up2date, and rhn-applet all point to the same repo to avoid 
inconsistencies is a bit more awkward to set up, but it's a "cleaner" 
solution.

Paul.