Up2date advice

[William Hooper]

Scott Talbot wrote:
> William Hooper wrote:
>
>
>> Tomas Mraz wrote:
>>
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>>
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>>> This update can also be installed with the Update Agent; you can
>>> launch the Update Agent with the 'up2date' command.  You may need to
>>> edit your up2date channels configuration.  Within
>>> /etc/sysconfig/rhn/sources
>>> enable the following line: yum updates-testing
>>> http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/testi
>>> ng/4 /$ARCH
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Since the headers directory is empty for FC4, maybe this bit of advice
>> should be updated?
>>
>>
>>
> No, since up2date now uses yum repomd, it no longer needs the
> headers directory.  Though it'd be great if they could get the applet to
> use repomd too!
>
> Scott

It appears to look for the headers if you use the yum keyword, though:

[whooper at FC4 ~]$ sudo /usr/sbin/up2date -l
There was a fatal error communicating with the server. The message was:

An HTTP error occurred:
URL:
http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/testing/4/i386/headers/header.info

-- 
William Hooper