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

[José Alburquerque <jaalburquerque (at) cox.net>]

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
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