On Sun, 2005-07-10 at 13:43 -0400, Tony Nelson wrote: > At 12:02 AM -0400 7/10/05, Terry Snyder wrote: > >Ever since I upgraded to Fedora Core 4 from Fedora Core 3 my Red Hat > >Network Alert Notification Tool has stopped working. Everything I > >click on the blue check mark it ask to Activate my Subscription. I > >click on Activate every time and I am still not notified when updates > >are available. Is there any way to fix this? > > What Paul Howarth said. No. Basically, Up2Date has been updated to use a > new data format and no longer needs a "headers" directory on the server. > Unfortunately, rhn-applet-*'s have not been updated and still rely on that > "headers" directory, and it is always empty. No so; rhn-applet *has* been updated to handle repomd style metadata, it's just broken (perhaps we should say "an attempt to update it to use repomd metadata" has been made?). Both up2date and rhn-applet still use a "headers" directory if you specify a "yum" repo (rather than repomd) in the rhn sources file. > I'm on FC3 and Up2Date works for me (though not for some people). In my > opinion, until FC4 has a working Up2Date (or a replacement) Isn't yum a replacement? > it is not > suitable for general use, and should not have been released. It probably > was just an oversight, but it /needs/ to be fixed now! I'll second that. Paul. -- Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
