Re: up2date

Original post:

On Wed, 2004-03-31 at 17:19, John Walsh wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I just installed Fedora core 1 (yarrow).
>
> The up2date warning icon is flashing away (red (!) in gnome)...
>
> but when I try to run up2date, I just get blocked by error messages:

I had 2 responses:

From: Alexander Dalloz <alexander.dalloz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reply-To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: up2date
Date: Thu, 01 Apr 2004 00:44:24 +0200

Did you search the list archiv before posting? That is a FAQ.

Do not register RHN on Fedora. If done though repair it in
/etc/sysconfig/rhn/sources

# up2date default

Be sure to set up a mirror

http://fedoranews.org/contributors/alexander_dalloz/mirror/

Alexander

From: Jeremy Hogan <jhogan@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reply-To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: up2date
Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2004 20:10:34 -0500

There's no RHN channel for Fedora. You can check out:

http://fedoranews.org/tchung/up2date/

And

http://www.fedoranews.org/tchung/howto/2003-12-02-rhn-applet.shtml

To fix up2date and the rhn-applet.

Thanks both - you got me onto the correct track, and between you I got it
working.

Jeremy - your references were very useful, and got me to fix the 'sources'
file, and update to rhn-applet-2.1.4-3.i386.rpm, but it still was not working.

Alexander - your "# up2date default" then got it working, based on yum rather
than a RHN service/channel I assume.

To 'tchung' - your articles:

TUTORIAL: up2date
HOWTO: How to fix rhn-applet

are good, but are missing a couple of things - if someone has FC1 (like me):

1) the line: up2date default
should be commented out of the 'sources' file.

2) that got the update system working - but the first time you run it, I would
suggest ONLY updating the 'up2date' rpm's. That then fixed the 'sources'
file anyway.

After that, it will happily do the updating...

BUT - I still have a couple of questions (of course):

1) some of the RPM's are coming through with

"The package **** does not have a valid GPG signature"

I'm choosing to continue (because choosing stop cancels the whole process),
but does that mean the package is still downloaded/installed ? Or is it skipped
and the rest of the up2date process left to continue ?

2) Is the file 'systemid' still needed ? This is left over from my RHN service, and
I assume its no longer needed. Unlike the file 'up2date', which still contains the
configuration for up2date.

NB. people still need to run up2date-config, but not rhn_register - can you add
that to your articles too.

Thanks,
John.

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