[CentOS] Alert icon for yum

[Johnny Hughes]

On Thu, 2006-04-27 at 00:14 -0500, Johnny Hughes wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-04-27 at 00:37 -0400, José Alburquerque wrote:
> > Hi all.  I have a simple question:  CentOS relies mostly on "yum" to 
> > keep systems up to date, although I understand that like on RHEL, 
> > "up2date" is also available.  On my system I've run both KDE and GNOME 
> > as Graphical Desktops under X (though I presently run GNOME), and I've 
> > noticed that there is an applet called "CentOS Network Alert Icon" (from 
> > the "System Tools" menu) which when run appears in a "status area" in a 
> > panel to show whether the system needs updating or not.  This applet 
> > shows the up2date sources, but my question is:  Is there any way to have 
> > some sort of similar applet that does this for yum.   I just think that 
> > when we add repos we usually add them through yum.  Also when we update 
> > the system we usually use yum.  Hence I think it would be better to use 
> > an applet similar to up2date's for yum so that there is no need to edit 
> > both yum and up2date files and there is consistency between when the 
> > applet signals a need for updating and the actual "yum update" command.  
> > Am I making sense?
> > 
> > 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
> 
> The best I can tell that still uses up2date's /etc/sysconfig/rhn/sources
> file to check for updates ... it just launched GYUM instead of up2date
> for doing the updates.
> _______________________________________________

This will probably become what you want, though I'm not sure how well it
works now:

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/YumApplet

Thanks,
Johnny Hughes
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