Am Mon, den 03.11.2003 schrieb Sean Middleditch um 22:10: > yes, of course ximian uses the redhat rpms. they don't use your rhn > account tho, ximian provides copies of the redhat rpms on their own > red-carpet mirrors, which are installed using the red-carpet system, not > rhn. ximian has not and, likely, will not provide any packages for rh9 > or any other supported distro save the xd2 packages they normally > provide. if you want continued rh9 support, ximian isn't the place to > look. browse the archives of this list for posts on individuals/groups > providing security errata for rh9. thx again-i'll wait and see what happens. i use xd2 mainly just because i was curious and therefore installed it, but taken aside the much better-looking vera-fonts and the nicer looking ooo, it has really no real benefits over rh9, so i might go back to fedora. oh well, looks like another backup-tweaking-session...;-( ps: do you know if at least the updates/fixes of the fedora-core-packages will be provided via rhn (just as with rhl), or will they get distributed via reps.? unfortunately, the bits of information shattered across the fedora-pages (need to get cleaned up and updated) aren't exactly very clear about this point! i like yum and apt4rpm for installation of additional packages, but for updating the whole system, up2date is more comfortable.
