up2date service not working?
Paul Howarth
paul at city-fan.org
Thu Apr 21 13:06:08 UTC 2005
David Liguori wrote:
> It's my understanding that, as FC3 is shipped, up2date and yum both use
> the same repo list, in yum.cfg.
No, this is not true.
yum uses repos specified in /etc/yum.conf and /etc/yum.repos.d/*.repo
up2date uses repos specified in /etc/sysconfig/rhn/sources
> You need to tweak your repo list if
> you're getting slow mirrors all the time.
Agreed.
> The Red Hat sites, in particular, are usually very busy.
Agreed.
> Also, some on this list seem to think that up2date is only a gui tool.
> up2date has a "nox" option. While the details of operation may differ,
> running "up2date -u" is functionally equivalent to "yum -y update", and
> fewer characters to type as well. Both are equally effective at
> extinguishing the red ball in the notification tool, and neither
> requires further user input.
Agreed, though it's probably best to stick to one tool so as to avoid
downloading multiple copies of metadata, one set per tool. It's not a
big deal though.
Paul.
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