up2date is fuzzy

[Kam Leo]

On 7/13/05, Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org> wrote:
> William Case wrote:
> > Ever since installing FC4 my up2date does not find updates, even when I
> > click on the 'Check for updates' dialogue.  It only finds something by
> > using 'Launch up to date ...'.  It always worked in FC3.
> 
> The icon is rhn-applet, not up2date. "Launch up2date" starts up2date.
> 
> The applet is broken in FC4 - it does not support the repomd repository
> format; up2date isn't (at least, not *as* broken).
> 
> I'll be pleasantly surprised if rhn-applet gets fixed before FC5 comes
> out...
> 
> You can check for available updates on the command line using either
> "up2date --nox --list" or "yum check-update".
> 
> Paul.
> 

Not only is the applet broken so is up2date. Using the default config
settings up2date takes for ever to process the repos.  I recommend
that you use yum or apt.