On Sat, 2005-12-03 at 11:40 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Saturday 03 December 2005 08:58, Timothe Litt wrote: > >In a fit of stupidity, I managed to get up2date > >unsubscribed from its "channel". (I am unable > >to reconstruct exactly how I got here; it involved > >thinking that getting a Red Hat Network managemente > >account was a good idea; then discovering that > >getting it to do anything was a for-fee service.) > > Correct. But a bigger problem is that A, its been deprecated, and B, > its for Redhat Enterprise commercial Versions of linux, the commercial, > costs more than windows, release. So it isn't going to work with > fedora, ever. > > Fedora uses a utility called yum, which stands for Yellowdog Updater, > Modified. It will do everything the up2date did, faster & better, but > using the fedora repositories you set up in /etc/yum/. The install > gives you a default that setup for your distro FC3, and that should > continue to Just Work(TM) until FC3 has been moved to the legacy status. ---- huh? # up2date -u http://fedora.redhat.com/download/up2date-mirrors/fedora-core-3 using mirror: http://mirror.web-ster.com/fedora/core/3/i386/os/ http://fedora.redhat.com/download/up2date-mirrors/updates-released-fc3 using mirror: http://ftp.uni- bayreuth.de/linux/fedora/linux/core/updates/3/i386 Fetching Obsoletes list for channel: fedora-core-3... Fetching Obsoletes list for channel: updates-released-fc3... Fetching rpm headers... Name Version Rel ---------------------------------------------------------- All packages are currently up to date up2date works. I think that there's issues with the applet. Craig
