up2date reports system is always up to date??

Thorsten Leemhuis fedora at leemhuis.info
Sun Oct 2 17:26:55 UTC 2005


Am Sonntag, den 02.10.2005, 11:59 -0500 schrieb Ian Pilcher:
> oldman wrote:
> >    The problem is in the rhn applet.  When fedora moved up2date to use
> > yum repositories the applet was not told how to read the new style
> > headers.  As a result you don't get informed.  As you may know up2date
> > still works and will tell you what is ready when you click on the applet
> > and select to start update.  Hopefully this will be resolved for FC5.
> 
> What makes you think this will be fixed in FC5?  The bug has been open
> for several months, without any response from the developers.  AFAICT,
> they simply don't care.

AFAIK they are working on a new app called "pup" that will replace the
old applet.

https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-config-list/2005-January/msg00017.html
http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/FC5Future
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Thorsten Leemhuis <fedora at leemhuis.info>




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