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? The only real problem I know of is
the zero-size overview in up2date due to the fact that yum's
header.info file does not include package sizes. I have solved this
for X/OS Linux (<
http://www.xoslinux.org/, a rebuild of RHEL3) by
adding a backward-compatible enhancement to yum-arch and some changes
to up2date, and now up2date and yum repositories seem to work fine.
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.
See <
http://download.xoslinux.org/pub/xoslinux/3/i386/release/SRPMS/>
for my versions of yum, up2date, rhnlib and rhn-applet (all these
packages are originally the FC2 versions) for X/OS Linux 3 (see the
package's changelogs for a description of the changes).
Cheers,
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