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 -------------- 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/20060427/662d109b/attachment-0005.sig>