RHN subscription

[Tom Diehl]

On Thu, 1 Sep 2005, Tony Nelson wrote:

> 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.

You can't. RHN does not nor has it ever supported FC anything. Besides why
would you want to? (its a rhetorical question, do not answer it I do not really
care) :-) You have a perfectly good updating system with yum. All you need to do
is READ one of the many documents on it and away you go.  It is not really that
hard as long as you are willing to take a few minutes to learn about it.

Regards,

Tom Diehl		tdiehl at rogueind.com		Spamtrap address mtd123 at rogueind.com