On Nov 13, 2003, "D. Lee Rose" <lrose@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. It does support YUM repositories over HTTP as well, grabbing info on what repos you're using from /etc/sysconfig/rhn/sources. It doesn't support apt, and I noticed it doesn't support local yum repos (file: URLs) -- Alexandre Oliva Enjoy Guarana', see http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ Red Hat GCC Developer aoliva@{redhat.com, gcc.gnu.org} CS PhD student at IC-Unicamp oliva@{lsd.ic.unicamp.br, gnu.org} Free Software Evangelist Professional serial bug killer
