Up2date replacement

[Don Springall]

I noticed an update to up2date today. I though it was being dropped in 
favour of yum and pup. Why fix it if it is going away ?

By the way it seems to be broken at the moment. See below:
[root at localhost don]# up2date
An error has occurred:
exceptions.AttributeError
See /var/log/up2date for more information

up2date log file:
[Sun Dec 18 16:08:31 2005] up2date   File "/usr/sbin/up2date", line 1265, in 
?
    sys.exit(main() or 0)
   File "/usr/sbin/up2date", line 328, in main
    sources = sourcesConfig.getSources()
   File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/sourcesConfig.py", line 263, in 
getSources
    scfg = SourcesConfigFile(filename="/etc/sysconfig/rhn/sources")
   File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/sourcesConfig.py", line 42, in 
__init__
    self.load()
   File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/sourcesConfig.py", line 85, in load
    self.parseRepomd(line)
   File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/sourcesConfig.py", line 220, in 
parseRepomd
    yb = yumBaseRepo.initYumRepo()
   File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/repoBackends/yumBaseRepo.py", line 
40, in initYumRepo
    yb = YumBaseRepo()
   File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/repoBackends/yumBaseRepo.py", line 
20, in __init__
    self.conf = yum.config.yumconf()