Mike Stankovic wrote:
--- Jos� Alburquerque jaalburquerque@cox.net wrote:
I found a site (http://fedoranews.org/tchung/yum-applet/) with the source for a yum applet. I know I can build this for myself, but I was wondering what others on this list think and whether such an applet should be more widely available to the general CentOS audience. Can I go ahead and build this for my system? TIA for your answers.
Sincerely Jose Alburquerque
Incase you did not know, the link someone gave to yum applet applies to Fedora 4, 5 and onwards. CentOS 4 is based on RHEL which was in turn based on Fedora core 3. For the statisticians the 87% of the packages in FC3 appeared unmodified in nahant beta. In Fedora Core 3 and earlier the familiar rhn applet notifies you when updates are available. Read between the line when consulting Fedora material beacuse it mostly appies to FC5 or FC4 all newer than CentOS. CentOS 5 will be based on RHEL 5 which will be based on FC5 (minus the annoying bugs and stuff upstream do not want to support).
This situation may be confusing to people who may not be aware of the development chain.
I'm not sure if you're referring to the link I gave, but the author of the "yum-applet" provided rpm packages for FC1 and FC2 and at the very top of the page there is a link for FC3 packages (http://fedoranews.org/tchung/gyum/2.0/) which, as you said, would work well with CentOS 4 (which I understand has a lot of FC3). I do agree though, as you said, that we should be careful about what Fedora material we use in our systems.
CentOS 4 has already a working applet rhn-applet-2.1.24-3.centos4.i386.rpm available in the base directory.
The rhn-applet presently works with up2date. The problem, as I said, is that a "yum compatible" applet would be nice.
Sincerely Jose Alburquerque