D. Lee Rose said: >From what I can find, the rhn-applet does NOT do this. It appears to > contact RedHat at http://xmlrpc.rhn.redhat.com/XMLRPC. Meaning that the > applet does not simply check for new files at the source urls, it uses the > RedHat Network software to notify it of new software. Unless Fedora plans > to emulate this, there is no use in even having it installed. Incorrect. rhn-applet checks for new files in the repositories defined in /etc/sysconfig/rhn/sources. You are probably getting confused because there is a bug in rhn-applet that it doesn't like URL redirects and the default URLs are redirected. There is a bug in bugzilla for it and a listing of URLs that do work if you don't want to wait for the fix. -- William Hooper
