On Fri, 2 Sep 2005, Jeff Vian wrote:
On Thu, 2005-09-01 at 22:24 -0400, Tom Diehl wrote:
> On Thu, 1 Sep 2005, Tony Nelson wrote:
>
>> At 3:40 PM -0500 9/1/05, Jeff Vian wrote:
>>> On Thu, 2005-09-01 at 03:39 +0930, Tim wrote:
>>>> On Wed, 2005-08-31 at 16:25 +0100, Paul Howarth wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> If you want to check for updates, try "yum check-update"
instead.
>>>>
>>>> Which takes several minutes to complete (fetch new information, and
>>>> parse local files, etc.). Yet RHN would let you know in a few seconds
>>>> that there were some updates, and would only go through the long process
>>>> of working out what, *if* you wanted to follow it up.
>>>>
>>>> I miss that aspect of RHN.
>>>>
>>>
>>> The RHN alert icon is on the panel for me by default. All it takes is a
>>> few seconds to configure it and it works to do exactly what you suggest.
>>
>> I think many people on this list would like to know how exactly to
>> configure RHN to work on FC4.
>
> You can't. RHN does not nor has it ever supported FC anything. Besides why
> would you want to? (its a rhetorical question, do not answer it I do not really
> care) :-) You have a perfectly good updating system with yum. All you need to do
> is READ one of the many documents on it and away you go. It is not really that
> hard as long as you are willing to take a few minutes to learn about it.
>
You are right Tom, RHN does not do the updates. However, the RHN alert
icon for telling you that updates are available does work on FC4.
Where did I say it didn't? The OP asked about RHN not the applet.
I use the icon to let me know updates are available since I do not
want
to allow yum to do updates automatically. Then, when I chose, I do the
updates manually.
Ok, I do not see any problem with mine anyway. Works out of the box.
Regards,
Tom