Red Hat Network Alert Notification Tool FC4 Subscription Alert

[Tony Nelson]

At 11:25 AM +0100 7/12/05, Paul Howarth wrote:
>Tony Nelson wrote:
>> At 7:08 AM +0100 7/11/05, Paul Howarth wrote:

>>>No so; rhn-applet *has* been updated to handle repomd style metadata,
>>>it's just broken (perhaps we should say "an attempt to update it to use
>>>repomd metadata" has been made?).
>>
>>
>> Hmm, OK.
>
>Actually I'll take back what I said about rhn-applet having been updated
>to handle repomd style metadata. Yesterday I had a look at the code to
>see if I could figure out what was wrong with it (as best I could since
>I'm not a python programmer).

Well, thank you for trying.  You're more the Python programmer than I am.


>> Oh.  Does FC4 yum notify users when there are updates to install, say, by
>> puting an icon in the top bar?
>
>No. But you could run "yum check-update" to find out if there are any
>updates.

OK, that's what I had thought.
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