On Wed, 24 Dec 2003 01:04:49 +0000, you wrote: >On Wednesday 24 December 2003 00:45, Dennis Calhoun wrote: > >> > >> >up2date --nox -i yum [snip] > >This isn't a way to run yum. This is a way, via up2date, to install >the yum RPM. Well, see what I know? not much :) anyway, when I tried to do that i got an error, but i dont recall what it was and am not doing email from that machine yet. maybe i needed more info to begin with, like do i need to "exit the applet" before running that command? I'll try to do that again and post the error i get. > >Since you didn't have yum installed on your RH9 system there was no >need to install yum when you upgraded from RH9 to Fedora. On the >other hand the up2date utility was upgraded to use yum repositories >instead of RHN repositories. > >In short, there is no need to install yum if you plan to use up2date >to keep your system current. Well, I can partially understand that, but.... my existing updated up2date does not work right, as i told about in my reply to Daniel Veillard. >I do not run yum, I run up2date to update from a yum repository. My >/etc/sysconfig/rhn/sources file looks like this: > >===BEGIN================ >#up2date default > >yum fedora-core-1 http://fedora.redhat.com/releases/fedora-core-1 > >yum updates-released >ftp://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora/core/updates/1/i386 >===END=THREE=LINES======= > >In order to see if your system is configured properly, what happens >when you run?: > >up2date --nox -u --dry-run I'll check that soon too and post of it here. Thanks for your help! -- Dennis C.
