up2date reports system is always up to date??

[oldman]

Ian Pilcher wrote:

>oldman wrote:
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>>   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.
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>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.
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    Perhaps you didn't see the word hopefully?  Seriously though, it has 
seemed to me that there has been little work done on this and it is 
possible that up2date will be dropped.  I really got my hopes up when 
they released an update for it in rawhide the other day, but alas, 
didn't fix the problem.

Scott