On Fri, 2005-09-02 at 07:25 +0100, Paul Howarth wrote: > On Thu, 2005-09-01 at 15:40 -0500, 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. > > Except in FC4 the applet doesn't work with the default repos (repomd > format) and the only way of getting it to work (i.e. to tell you when > there are updates available without actually running up2date) is by > rolling your own repos with old-fashioned metadata. If you know of a way > to actually make it work, please let us know! > > Paul. Now I am really puzzled. I 'know' that it was working for me at some time in the past on FC4. Because of this thread I just checked the icon again and found that in fact it is not working now. Either I am misremembering, or it did work and now does not. More research required, Drat!
