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. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20060427/04095a51/attachment-0005.sig>