On Wed, Feb 11, 2004 at 04:21:59PM -0500, William Hooper wrote: > > Christoph Wickert said: > > Am Mi, den 11.02.2004 schrieb Marc Williams um 21:33: > >> 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. > > > > IMO you are right here: It doesn't do anything and is a relict of > > pre-fedora-times. > > IIUC RHEL and Fedora use the same code base for rhn-applet and up2date. > Since Fedora doesn't have a RHN channel it doesn't do anything, but it > needs to be there for RHEL that does have a RHN channel. Exact. I actually have machines subscribed to RHN who use both the RHN channel and yum repositories for updates. This of course requires the updated versions of up2date and rhn-applet. 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/
