Exile In Paradise said: > 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? As shipped with Fedora Core 1, up2date and yum both talk to the same YUM server for updates, so that is done. The rhn_applet also checks this server for updates. Up2date does support apt repositories, but it looks like the rhn_applet lacks that functionality: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=111759 > 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. I wouldn't call it any more dangerous than randomly adding a source to either apt or YUM. > 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? Up2date and rhn_applet only look at /etc/sysconfig/rhn/sources. apt and yum only look at their respective conf files. > What conflicts tend to come up using APT and YUM sources together? This depends a lot on the sources. If more than one source provides a package then you might get a different package than you were expecting. > 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? IIUC, Fedora.us will become the "Fedora Extras". Other repositories don't go out of their way to break things. Freshrpms.net, Dag's, Axel's, and Rudolf's repos generally work together from what I hear (reference http://freshrpms.net/links/ ). As in all things, though, they may occasionally cause conflicts. Watching the Freshrpms-list will generally warn you about them. > 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. Channel names are whatever you want to call them. There isn't a rule that says it must be anything, but I generally follow what the maintainer has. For example: http://ayo.freshrpms.net/fedora/linux/1/i386/freshrpms becomes freshrpms (as opposed to fedora-core-1 or fedora-core-updates-released). -- William Hooper
