On Tue, 2007-01-30 at 22:38 -0600, Johnny Hughes wrote: > On Tue, 2007-01-30 at 19:50 -0600, Jay Leafey wrote: > > Alfred von Campe wrote: > > > If so, how do you configure the up2date client that comes with CentOS to > > > look at the local yum mirror? Conversely, how do you disable the CentOS > > > Network Alert Notification Tool so that users won't see the "throbbing > > > red circle" and be tempted to launch the up2date client? > > > > > > Thanks, > > > Alfred > > > > You can add or change the source of updates used by up2date by editing > > the file /etc/sysconfig/rhn/sources. There are examples in > > the comments for using apt or yum repositories, or just a directory full of RPM files. > > > > Good luck! > > up2date uses yum headers that are created by yum-arch ... where as yum > > 2.2 (the version in CentOS-4 is 2.4 currently) uses metadata created by > createrepo. > > If you used yum-arch to create yum headers for your local yum repos, > then you can adjust up2date (and therefore also rhn-applet) to use a > local repo by adjusting /etc/sysconfig/rhn/sources. > > up2date can even use (though not very well) createrepo metadata using > the repomd type repo .. however, rhn-applet will not work that way. > That is why the centos mirrors have both yum-arch and createrepo type > metadata. > > Remember that yum (and not up2date) was designed as the primary method > for package management for CentOS. Up2date is provided with the RHN > parts removed, and is functional, but yum is recommended. In fact, > up2date would not have been retained at all if it were not for the rhn- > applet. It is also worth noting that all the things that we do with yum plugins (fastest mirror, protect base, priorities, etc.) _DO_NOT_ work with up2date. -------------- 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/20070130/29337508/attachment-0005.sig>