RHN subscription

Tony Nelson tonynelson at georgeanelson.com
Fri Sep 2 01:23:12 UTC 2005


At 3:40 PM -0500 9/1/05, Jeff Vian wrote:
>On Thu, 2005-09-01 at 03:39 +0930, Tim wrote:
>> 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.
>>
>
>The RHN alert icon is on the panel for me by default.  All it takes is a
>few seconds to configure it and it works to do exactly what you suggest.

I think many people on this list would like to know how exactly to
configure RHN to work on FC4.
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