On 7/13/05, Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > William Case wrote: > > Ever since installing FC4 my up2date does not find updates, even when I > > click on the 'Check for updates' dialogue. It only finds something by > > using 'Launch up to date ...'. It always worked in FC3. > > The icon is rhn-applet, not up2date. "Launch up2date" starts up2date. > > The applet is broken in FC4 - it does not support the repomd repository > format; up2date isn't (at least, not *as* broken). > > I'll be pleasantly surprised if rhn-applet gets fixed before FC5 comes > out... > > You can check for available updates on the command line using either > "up2date --nox --list" or "yum check-update". > > Paul. > Not only is the applet broken so is up2date. Using the default config settings up2date takes for ever to process the repos. I recommend that you use yum or apt.
