On Thu, 2005-09-01 at 22:24 -0400, Tom Diehl wrote: > On Thu, 1 Sep 2005, Tony Nelson wrote: > > > At 3:40 PM -0500 9/1/05, Jeff Vian wrote: > > >On Thu, 2005-09-01 at 03:39 +0930, Tim wrote: > > >> On Wed, 2005-08-31 at 16:25 +0100, Paul Howarth wrote: > > >> > > >> > If you want to check for updates, try "yum check-update" instead. > > >> > > >> Which takes several minutes to complete (fetch new information, and > > >> parse local files, etc.). Yet RHN would let you know in a few seconds > > >> that there were some updates, and would only go through the long process > > >> of working out what, *if* you wanted to follow it up. > > >> > > >> I miss that aspect of RHN. > > >> > > > > > >The RHN alert icon is on the panel for me by default. All it takes is a > > >few seconds to configure it and it works to do exactly what you suggest. > > > > I think many people on this list would like to know how exactly to > > configure RHN to work on FC4. > > You can't. RHN does not nor has it ever supported FC anything. Besides why > would you want to? (its a rhetorical question, do not answer it I do not really > care) :-) You have a perfectly good updating system with yum. All you need to do > is READ one of the many documents on it and away you go. It is not really that > hard as long as you are willing to take a few minutes to learn about it. > You are right Tom, RHN does not do the updates. However, the RHN alert icon for telling you that updates are available does work on FC4. I use the icon to let me know updates are available since I do not want to allow yum to do updates automatically. Then, when I chose, I do the updates manually. > Regards, > > Tom Diehl tdiehl@xxxxxxxxxxxx Spamtrap address mtd123@xxxxxxxxxxxx >
