On Sat, 2004-11-06 at 23:04 +0100, Iago Rubio wrote:
On Sat, 2004-11-06 at 13:22, Jos Vos wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 06, 2004 at 01:10:09PM +0100, Iago Rubio wrote:
>
> > I don't think yum should merge with up2date. Yum bypasses up2date
> > functionality right now and frankly I don't use up2date ever because
> > it's still buggy (On my FC1 and FC2 systems).
>
> What are the bugs you encounter?
Mostly hangs when downloading packages.
Yep, it also happened to me, many times up2date was just unresponsive
(i.e. it appeared to be hanged).
I don't know how it works in xoslinux, but in my fedora boxes I
don't
use it because it used to fail, and also because I'm happy with yum.
I don't know if or how up2date was improved post FC2 but I'm running
rawhide and up2date has been very reliable. I was able to upgrade my
system without problems with up2date during the early yum 2.1.x unstable
periods.
> > I'd really like to interface the rhn applet with yum,
or at least to
> > make it configurable so you could launch your preferred update command -
> > in my case `xterm -e yum update` :)
>
> What do you mean with "interface the rhn applet with yum"? Rhn-applet
> works fine with yum repositories.
I mean one "Launch Yum" button instead of the "Launch up2date" button
on
the rhn notification tool dialog :)
You can try this[1]:
GYUM: Graphical User Interface for YUM
http://fedoranews.org/tchung/gyum/
HOWTO build GYUM Alert Icon (yum-applet) [2]
http://fedoranews.org/tchung/yum-applet/
I'm not sure, but I don't think it will work with the latest yum
(2.1.x).
[1] I did, and now I appreciate up2date even more.
[2] This is a partial hacked version of the rhn-applet. IIRC, you can
instll or use both (rhn-applet and yum-applet) at the same time.
Regards,
--
Ricardo Veguilla <veguilla(a)hpcf.upr.edu>