RedHat registration needed for Fedora Core 4 to have up2date working??

[Rahul Sundaram]

Guy Fraser wrote:

>On Mon, 2005-26-09 at 22:00 +0930, Tim wrote:
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>>On Mon, 2005-09-26 at 14:20 +0200, Masopust Christian wrote:
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>>>is it true that RedHat registration and purchase of warenty is
>>>neccessary for up2date working on FC4??
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>>No.  And it wouldn't help you, up2date doesn't work properly with Fedora
>>Core 4.  It can be made to do something, but it's a fight, and doesn't
>>fit into the description of working properly.
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>>My advice, remove the rhn and up2date packages.  Since they don't work,
>>and you'll most probably end up doing things some other way.  i.e. YUM.
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>I can't believe I am asking this, but ; Has a Bugzilla been filled out.
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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=160873
Repomd format is the new one used by yum for the repositories.

>In RHEL 4 the only package manager that does work properly is up2date, 
>YUM and the GUI package manager make a nasty mess resolving or https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=160873
>should I say failing to resolve dependencies properly.
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Up2date has the capability to connect to RHN while yum does not. If you 
want to use third party repositories you can configure it in 
/etc/sysconfig/rhn/sources

>Is RH committed to fixing up2date?
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For the current released versions for RHEL, up2date connects to RHN and 
does not use yum repository format and hence it will continue to work. 
For Fedora I have filed a request to drop it
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=167770

regards
Rahul