Registered with RHN for updates...

[Arthur Pemberton]

Alexander Dalloz wrote:

>Am Do, den 04.08.2005 schrieb Mark Knights um 16:10:
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>>Have just built a Fedora Core 4 machine for some uni work and hooked up 
>>my modem.  I am looking to run up2date and registered with the RHN.  Got 
>>the reply email and went to the requested page and confirmed my membership.
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>Fedora does not use RHN. You do not need to register anywhere to receive
>updates. If you run the step and register using up2date / RHN applet the
>tool will refuse to work as there is no Fedora channel with the RHN
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>>However, when I run up2 date the system goes to collect the packages and 
>>then just seems to hang.  Is anyone aware of anything else I should be 
>>doing?
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>Correct the settings. Or even better: use "yum" to update package, to
>install further or to uninstall unwanted.
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>For reference about past discussions:
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>1) http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=fedora-list&w=2&r=1&s=RHN&q=b
>2) http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=fedora-list&w=2&r=1&s=up2date&q=b
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>>Mark
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>Alexander
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Any particular reason why up2date is still front and center of Fedora, 
it hasn't worked properly for me since FC2.