[CentOS] Alert icon for yum - Applies to FC4/FC5 and CentOS5

Karanbir Singh mail-lists at karan.org
Sat Apr 29 11:19:37 UTC 2006


José Alburquerque wrote:
>> 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.

up2date on CentOS uses a yum-backend, and not the rhn code :) so
indirectly you still get yum repositories for updating against.

having said that, the rhn-applet has huge in memory requirements, would
be good to see a replacement which is lighter.

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