up2date connects to xmlrpc.rhn.redhat.com? necessary?

[Alexander Dalloz]

Am Mo, den 16.02.2004 schrieb Rainer Traut um 16:25:
> Hi,
> 
> Alexander Dalloz wrote:
> 
> > With "../rhn/sources" you mean /etc/sysconfig/rhn/sources?
> Yes.

Good.

> >>But it seems up2date hangs if it cannot connect to
> >>xmlrpc.rhn.redhat.com

Hm, is your Fedora installation an upgrade from a previous Redhat
release or a plain new install?

> > The actual official up2date package for FC1 can not handle RHN channels.
> > Comment "up2date default" with a leading # in /etc/sysconfig/rhn/sources
> > file.
> I have no "up2date default" in my /etc/sysconfig/rhn/sources
> It was the one in my initial post.
> 
> >>strace of up2date
> >>connect(5, {sa_family=AF_INET, sin_port=htons(443), 
> >>sin_addr=inet_addr("66.187.232.101")}, 16 <unfinished ...>
> >>
> >>Then up2date hangs.
> 
> > Do not use up2date with RHN.
> Never wanted to do so...
> 
> >>Here is my sources file:
> >>### an yum style repo
> >>### format:
> >>### type  channel-label     url
> > 
> > 
> > [ snipped yum.conf parts ]
> which yum.conf parts?!
> This was /etc/sysconfig/rhn/sources

.oO Right, at a second view. I should get more sleep ;)

> > up2date does not use yum and the yum.conf. up2date requires a valid
> > /etc/sysconfig/rhn/sources file.
> This was not valid? Why?

First sentence was my mistake from above.

> #yum fedora-core-1 http://fedora.redhat.com/releases/fedora-core-1
> yum fedora-core-1
ftp://ftp.tu-chemnitz.de/pub/linux/fedora-core/1/i386/os/Fedora/RPMS
^^^ wrong, URI must be:
http://wftp.tu-chemnitz.de/pub/linux/fedora-core/1/i386/os/

> Rainer

Alexander


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