On Wed, 2004-02-11 at 16:33, Marc Williams wrote: > Let me see if I finally have this straight... > > - up2date and rhn-applet-gui are two entirely different utilities > neither of which have any dependency upon the other. Almost unrelated > except in purpose. > > - up2date uses the contents of /etc/yum.conf for its purposes > I think that the correct is "yum uses the contents of /etc/yum.conf for its purposes" > - rhn-applet-gui uses the contents of /etc/sysconfig/rhn/sources for its > purposes > and "up2date and rhn-applet-gui uses the contents of /etc/sysconfig/rhn/sources for its purposes" up2date and rhn-applet-gui are related programs (rhn-applet-gui requires up2date-gnome and this one requires up2date) > Now for the questions. > > 1) Assuming the above is accurate, would there be any point in having > the resources pointed to by those files be different i.e. having a > update mirror in one but fedora.com in the other? If not, then why > aren't they combined into one file? They look like they do pretty much > the same thing to me... > > 2) What is the purpose of https://xmlrpc.rhn.redhat.com/XMLRPC showing > up as a RHN server in up2date-config? It doesn't seem to do anything. > > Thanks for any insights. I'm just trying to understand things better. >
