Lots missing

lcf004 lincoln.fessenden at jefferson.edu
Thu Nov 18 15:02:46 UTC 2010


Georgios Magklaras wrote:
> On 11/18/2010 02:29 PM, lcf004 wrote:
>> Another thing mysteriously missing from RHEL 6:
>> There is no yum-updatesd.  This highly hyped release of RedHat is sure 
>> seeming like a very beta release so far....
>>
>> RedHat are you guys listening?  Get it together.  Fix your installer - 
>> reuse the one from RHEL 5 and by all means, put ALL the yum utilities 
>> back into the distribution!  A lot of us rely on notifications from 
>> the server or automatic updates.
>>
> In terms of maintaining a consistency between successive distro 
> versions, you have a point. However, with packagekitd being a standard, 
> running 'gpk-prefs' and setting up your update prefs is easy and makes 
> life easy without yum-updatesd.
> 
> GM
> 

Interesting - never heard of that util.  And it's not installed by 
default??  I'll check it out though, thanks!

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Lincoln Fessenden
Jeff-IT Linux Systems Administrator




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