status of up2date and rhn-applet

[Jeff Spaleta]

On 11/25/05, Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org> wrote:
> Joachim Frieben wrote:
> > It cannot be hard to use "yum" as a backend instead of
> > "up2date", so why start from scratch?
>
> Yum is already a backend for up2date, providing support (albeit slightly
> broken, at least in FC4) for repomd metadata.
uhm.... im pretty sure up2date has its own implementation of repodata parsing.
It's difficult to call yum a "backend" for up2date when up2date
doesn't use any of the yum codepath.  Pup on the other hand actually
uses yum python modules directly and in facts requires yum to be on
the system.  Moving forward as more useful functionality is dropped
into yum plugins its not going to be enough to just parse the
repodata, the gui tools is going to need to hook directly in to yum's
modules just as pup does.

-jef"2 steps forward 1 step back...doing the progress cha-cha"spaleta