RHN subscription

Tim ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au
Wed Aug 31 18:09:57 UTC 2005


On Wed, 2005-08-31 at 16:25 +0100, Paul Howarth wrote:

> If you want to check for updates, try "yum check-update" instead.

Which takes several minutes to complete (fetch new information, and
parse local files, etc.).  Yet RHN would let you know in a few seconds
that there were some updates, and would only go through the long process
of working out what, *if* you wanted to follow it up.

I miss that aspect of RHN.

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