up2date vs rhn-applet-gui

[Robert Marcano]

On Wed, 2004-02-11 at 16:33, Marc Williams wrote:
> Let me see if I finally have this straight...
> 
> - up2date and rhn-applet-gui are two entirely different utilities
> neither of which have any dependency upon the other.  Almost unrelated
> except in purpose.
> 
> - up2date uses the contents of /etc/yum.conf for its purposes
> 
I think that the correct is "yum uses the contents of /etc/yum.conf for
its purposes"

> - rhn-applet-gui uses the contents of /etc/sysconfig/rhn/sources for its
> purposes
> 

and "up2date and rhn-applet-gui uses the contents of
/etc/sysconfig/rhn/sources for its purposes"

up2date and rhn-applet-gui are related programs (rhn-applet-gui requires
up2date-gnome and this one requires up2date)

> Now for the questions.
> 
> 1) Assuming the above is accurate, would there be any point in having
> the resources pointed to by those files be different i.e. having a
> update mirror in one but fedora.com in the other?  If not, then why
> aren't they combined into one file?  They look like they do pretty much
> the same thing to me...
> 
> 2) What is the purpose of https://xmlrpc.rhn.redhat.com/XMLRPC showing
> up as a RHN server in up2date-config?  It doesn't seem to do anything.
> 
> Thanks for any insights.  I'm just trying to understand things better.
>