RedHat 9--Fedora Yarrow

Cyber Source peter at thecybersource.com
Sun Mar 14 13:44:06 EST 2004


also, the updater needs to be updated before you can use it due to an 
ssl problem, get that at redhat.com first

Cyber Source wrote:

> ah that's because Fedora does not use the RH network for updates. The 
> up2date package for Fedora gets the source package from a file called 
> sources in the /etc/sysconfig/rhn directory. There are url's in that 
> file that can be commented out or added to change where it gets the 
> packages from. We always change that to the UK one and download quick 
> from there. The US one is slower than molasses. Give that a shot and 
> if you need help, let me know.
>
> Robert Todd wrote:
>
>> I dunno, I was never able to get the up2date package to work even 
>> though I
>> am a paying member of the RHN (I own Red Hat Enterprise WS).
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: owner-nflug at nflug.org [mailto:owner-nflug at nflug.org] On Behalf Of
>> Cyber Source
>> Sent: Saturday, March 13, 2004 10:21 PM
>> To: nflug at nflug.org
>> Subject: Re: RedHat 9--Fedora Yarrow
>>
>> We have been putting Fedora on for all our clients now and it's been 
>> great. Biggest difference is that it is more up to date and you can 
>> get a new kernel for it from the up2date package. I highly recommend 
>> it and we are very anxiously waiting for Fedora Core 2 release with 
>> the 2.6 kernel!
>>  
>>



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