up2date vs. yum

[Matthew Saltzman]

On Tue, 10 Jan 2006, Christofer C. Bell wrote:

> On 1/10/06, Tim <ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au> wrote:
>> On Tue, 2006-01-10 at 11:26 +0000, Joao Paulo Pires wrote:
>>> If Up2date is barely maintained, should I uninstall Up2date?
>>
>> Why not?  I did, as well as anything else involved with RHN (the
>> blinking icon, etc).  You don't need them if you're not using them.
>
> The "blinking icon" works just fine.  There's no reason to uninstall
> it.  You'll probably never catch it blinking if you have the yum
> nightly update service enabled, but it does accurately detect when you
> need to install patches.

No, in FC4 it doesn't.  up2date works fine (except with livna), yum works 
fine, but the RHN applet apparently doesn't read the current format for 
repository metadata, so it won't detect when updates are needed.  And 
there doesn't seem to be a way of preventing it from starting on login 
short of removing the RPM.

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 		Matthew Saltzman

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