On Tue, Dec 23, 2003 at 06:19:03PM -0600, Dennis Calhoun wrote: > On Tue, 23 Dec 2003 11:51:35 -0500, you wrote: > > > Check /etc/sysconfig/rhn/sources > >The fact that the applet may not have worked but did after an upgrade > >is normal, a serious connectivity bug was fixed in an upgrade released > >a few weeks ago. > > Thanks Daniel. The problem is not that the up2date applet did not work > before I upgraded from RHL9 to Fedora Core 1, it did work ok before. > After my upgrade i now find it still says nothing different in the > menu in the GUI, still says Red Hat Network Notification Tool, and it > now is telling me that everything is fully up to date ALL the time, > even when I have not yet connected to the internet. > > When I ran up2date, regardless of what the applet did or did not > report about status, up2date displayed two channels that it subscribed > me to (different from what I had on RHL9) and it found *several* > updates (7.4 GB worth of them) that I then downloaded and installed. > All the while the applet was telling me all was up to date before any > of that. yes the initial applet shipped in fedora could not contact the server after a redirection. This is fixed as part of the updates you downloaded. You need of course to restart the applet to get the fixes. > It seems that there is yet some important work to be done on the > update system for Fedora Core. Like getting YUM listed in the GUI menu > items and RHN out. As well pretty much everything in general about YUM Hum, I use the exact same code. On RHL 9 I actually mix RHN source and Yum sources. I think dropping this capability would be a shame. > incorporated into the whole system, OS and update site wise. Doing > something to present different images for the status would be good > too, so that people would not so easily confuse the Red Hat Network > Notification icons with those for YUM. I disagree with that. It's a matter of system state. Not for a source of update. If someone use a similar interface as RHN (like current) this will also keep the applet working. I don't want to remove functionnality. You seems to think the applet will be limited to Yum in Fedora, it's not the case in general, for example I may add APT support at some point, or the new XML based metadata being devalopped. Daniel -- Daniel Veillard | Red Hat Network https://rhn.redhat.com/ veillard@xxxxxxxxxx | libxml GNOME XML XSLT toolkit http://xmlsoft.org/ http://veillard.com/ | Rpmfind RPM search engine http://rpmfind.net/
