Hopefully its not just me, but there seem to a proliferation of software update mechanisms in play for RHL/FC. Under RH9, I had rpm updates coming from RHN/up2date, APT, YUM, and even Red-Carpet all at the same time. Anytime anyone had an update, I eventually got in the habit of checking them all and then finally up2date -p to push the results of all those updates back to RHN. All of these methods are slightly different layers on top of the same basic RPM functionality, but they are not able to be managed and used from the same rhn-applet and up2date program. I really like the RHN Applet on the toolbar telling me things are okay or not okay (see my other thread about blinkenlight LED panels)... and a single run of up2date to make things okay when they aren't. Is there are simple way to get all of these various software update mechanisms moved into a single management app? Does anyone know how to get all of the various sources "configured" under the same umbrella/front-end? I see that up2date has a sources file that accepts both APT and YUM repository information, but I have seen in other emails on this list that some stunning breakage can occur if the the chicken-at-heart(me) go mucking around in there without a clear and precise definition of what needs to be added where. If a repository is APT, it should be added to the apt.conf AND sources? If a repository is YUM, it should be added to the yum.conf AND sources? What conflicts tend to come up using APT and YUM sources together? Is there a list somewhere of all the apt, yum, etc repositories that are cooperating to ensure no conflicts occur in the rpms they are packaging that also shows what the correct/exact entries that needed to be added are? Being new to FC1, I am hesitant to add new sources to rhn/up2date and apt or yum without a clear idea of what channel names and such are supposed to be used. In this case, with the many "management apps" for the same RPM process, things are getting more complex rather than simpler, and too much complexity will leave Windows Update service being the one grandma stays with... if you catch my drift? -- Exile In Paradise The optimist thinks that this is the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist knows it. -- J. Robert Oppenheimer, "Bulletin of Atomic Scientists"
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