Yum'ification of the rhn_applet
Jörn Rink
j.rink at freenet.de
Thu Oct 16 05:58:40 UTC 2003
On Wed, 15 Oct 2003 08:35:50 -0400
Daniel Veillard <veillard at redhat.com> wrote:
> I have just released an updated version of rhn_applet which
> should work better for the Fedora framework:
> - handle Yum repositories
> - handle multiple repositories
> - does not require RHN registration
>
> You can find it at:
> http://people.redhat.com/~veillard/testing/yum/rhn-applet/2.1.0/
> the Yum/Fedora repository for it is:
> http://people.redhat.com/~veillard/testing/yum/rhn-applet/
> It uses the same configuration file as up2date, i.e.
> /etc/sysconfig/rhn/sources
>
> Features:
> - do some caching on the client see ~/.rhn-applet/*.yum
> - tries to limit the load on servers to a minimal amount
> - the applet does not need to be restarted if sources are
> added or removed from /etc/sysconfig/rhn/sources
> - should be able to handle HTTPS connections
>
> TODO:
> - HTTP(S) proxy support (easy)
when do you think, we can have this one?
> - FTP support
> - better error reporting when source are unavailable
>
> Feedback welcome,
>
> Daniel
>
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