On Mon, 2005-07-11 at 15:32 -0400, Tony Nelson wrote: > At 7:08 AM +0100 7/11/05, Paul Howarth wrote: > >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?). > > Hmm, OK. > > > >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? > > Oh. Does FC4 yum notify users when there are updates to install, say, by > puting an icon in the top bar? I'm still using FC3. My impression was > that there was no working update notification mechanism. > > Yes, the applet does provide notification. > >> 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. > ____________________________________________________________________ > TonyN.:' <mailto:tonynelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > ' <http://www.georgeanelson.com/> >
