[CentOS] RHN Up2date Cruft: can I dump it?

Karanbir Singh mail-lists at karan.org
Sun Jul 30 01:10:40 UTC 2006


Chris Mauritz wrote:
> 
> Out of curiosity, how come that stuff remains in the CentOS distro at
> all since we're using yum to manage updates?  Or is there some strange
> subset of folks that install CentOS and then subscribe to RH updates?
> 

up2date on centos has the capability to use a yum based repo as the
backend. and yes, lots of people do continue to use up2date, either on
the desktop via the gnome-up2date-applet or via the up2date TUI
interface ( think if all those people who already had up2date tasks
scripted in from legacy systems...., and sysadmins who are already
familiar with up2date's command line interface ).

and its almost as much as 20% of all users ( last time I checked, end
June 2006 ) were using up2date's mechanism, on CentOS-4/i386

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