RHN subscription

[Tom Diehl]

On Fri, 2 Sep 2005, Jeff Vian wrote:

> 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.

Where did I say it didn't? The OP asked about RHN not the applet.

> 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.

Ok, I do not see any problem with mine anyway. Works out of the box.

Regards,

Tom