Re: RHN subscription

From: Paul Howarth (paul_at_city-fan.org)
Date: 09/02/05

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    Date: Fri, 02 Sep 2005 14:12:13 +0100
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    Jeff Vian wrote:
    > 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!

    You might want to check out:

    http://bugzilla.redhat.com/160873
    http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2005-July/msg02190.html

    Paul. 

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