Does pirut and yuum really work in FC6

Rahul Sundaram sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Mon Nov 6 19:34:52 UTC 2006


Aaron Konstam wrote:

>> Pirut doesnt have any capability to do updates and certainly not 
>> automatic updates. Pup can do updates but not auto updates. You can in 
>> Fedora Core 6 configure yum-updatesd to automatically do updates but 
>> that feature is not working due to a bug.
>>
>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=212507
> 
> Well it may not be doing updates but every once in a while I get a message that there are updates available
> and it pretends to do updates.

It *wont* do updates on its own. You have to manually allow that. This 
is not automatic updates.

  In addition it reports unfound
> dependencies.

You report earlier clearly showed Fedora Core 5 packages.

  It also I am convinced removed the gnome-session file so
> GNOME was no longer available.

There is no details on what happened with gnome-session. So its rather 
difficult to assume that there is any bug at all.

Rahul




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