RHN subscription

[Jeff Vian]

On Thu, 2005-09-01 at 22:24 -0400, Tom Diehl wrote:
> On Thu, 1 Sep 2005, Tony Nelson wrote:
> 
> > At 3:40 PM -0500 9/1/05, Jeff Vian wrote:
> > >On Thu, 2005-09-01 at 03:39 +0930, Tim wrote:
> > >> On Wed, 2005-08-31 at 16:25 +0100, Paul Howarth wrote:
> > >>
> > >> > If you want to check for updates, try "yum check-update" instead.
> > >>
> > >> Which takes several minutes to complete (fetch new information, and
> > >> parse local files, etc.).  Yet RHN would let you know in a few seconds
> > >> that there were some updates, and would only go through the long process
> > >> of working out what, *if* you wanted to follow it up.
> > >>
> > >> I miss that aspect of RHN.
> > >>
> > >
> > >The RHN alert icon is on the panel for me by default.  All it takes is a
> > >few seconds to configure it and it works to do exactly what you suggest.
> > 
> > I think many people on this list would like to know how exactly to
> > configure RHN to work on FC4.
> 
> You can't. RHN does not nor has it ever supported FC anything. Besides why
> would you want to? (its a rhetorical question, do not answer it I do not really
> care) :-) You have a perfectly good updating system with yum. All you need to do
> is READ one of the many documents on it and away you go.  It is not really that
> hard as long as you are willing to take a few minutes to learn about it.
> 

You are right Tom, RHN does not do the updates.  However, the RHN alert
icon for telling you that updates are available does work on FC4.

I use the icon to let me know updates are available since I do not want
to allow yum to do updates automatically. Then, when I chose, I do the
updates manually.

> Regards,
> 
> Tom Diehl		tdiehl at rogueind.com		Spamtrap address mtd123 at rogueind.com
>