Mike Stankovic wrote: >--- Jos� Alburquerque <jaalburquerque at 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