(Re-)enabling up2date
Craig White
craigwhite at azapple.com
Sat Dec 3 20:52:20 UTC 2005
On Sat, 2005-12-03 at 11:40 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Saturday 03 December 2005 08:58, Timothe Litt wrote:
> >In a fit of stupidity, I managed to get up2date
> >unsubscribed from its "channel". (I am unable
> >to reconstruct exactly how I got here; it involved
> >thinking that getting a Red Hat Network managemente
> >account was a good idea; then discovering that
> >getting it to do anything was a for-fee service.)
>
> Correct. But a bigger problem is that A, its been deprecated, and B,
> its for Redhat Enterprise commercial Versions of linux, the commercial,
> costs more than windows, release. So it isn't going to work with
> fedora, ever.
>
> Fedora uses a utility called yum, which stands for Yellowdog Updater,
> Modified. It will do everything the up2date did, faster & better, but
> using the fedora repositories you set up in /etc/yum/. The install
> gives you a default that setup for your distro FC3, and that should
> continue to Just Work(TM) until FC3 has been moved to the legacy status.
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huh?
# up2date -u
http://fedora.redhat.com/download/up2date-mirrors/fedora-core-3
using mirror: http://mirror.web-ster.com/fedora/core/3/i386/os/
http://fedora.redhat.com/download/up2date-mirrors/updates-released-fc3
using mirror: http://ftp.uni-
bayreuth.de/linux/fedora/linux/core/updates/3/i386
Fetching Obsoletes list for channel: fedora-core-3...
Fetching Obsoletes list for channel: updates-released-fc3...
Fetching rpm headers...
Name Version Rel
----------------------------------------------------------
All packages are currently up to date
up2date works. I think that there's issues with the applet.
Craig
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