up2date behavior
Daniel Veillard
veillard at redhat.com
Fri Nov 14 16:14:22 UTC 2003
On Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 08:06:37AM -0800, Doug Brott wrote:
> I was initially dismayed that rhn-applet phoned home to check *AND* required you to register to do it. It didn't quite make sense. I simply removed it from my installation and did not use it. After reviewing these messages, I have downloaded the "pre-release" version that Daniel posted.
>
> This version of rhn-applet works for me. I created my on yum repositories mirrored from the updates at Redhat and I do not have http redirects on my server. I am not experiencing the problems that some people are. I plan on using my local yum repositories to update workstation installation of FC1. Although the up2date setup is a little different with FC1 than RH9, I'm actually finding it to be less complicated with FC1.
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> My suggestion would be to make this version of rhn-applet available in the updates as soon as possible. Registration confusion will only get worse the more people start using FC1.
Well, I also need to fix first the HTTP(S) redirection problem and
file:/// yum repository access (Work In Progress), once done, yes it
will be pushed more widely,
Daniel
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