RHN Updater

[Charles McColm]

On Sun, 2004-01-18 at 15:01, Andre Meyer wrote:
> The Red Hat Network Updater applet now supports yum (but not apt),
> fortunately. However, it only shows upgradeable packages and not new

I've pretty much stopped using up2date & up2date-nox for updating. I
find up2date has a tendency to puke (still using dialup) if I try to use
it to update a larger package (i.e. kernel). Instead I use the
rhn-applet to look at the list of updates, then get them via ftp from a
mirror - it saves a lot of time! The mirror I was on last night to
update my kernel-source clicked along between 5-7 kb/s, great for my
33.6k modem which averages 2-3kb/s.

The disadvantage of ftp is that it's not https, but I'm not running a
mission critical system. (I suppose it is to me, but not to anyone else)

I too wouldn't mind seeing "new" packages showing up in rhn-applet. The
FC team might also want to build in a list of https mirrors (if they
exist) into up2date, it would lighten the load on the Red Hat server. I
know end users can do this, but if it's part of up2date-config then
maybe users will take the time to change it.

Cheers,

Charles
http://members.porchlight.ca/charm