Re: yam gpg, was Re: [SLUG] rhn's /var/spool/up2date/* : is it needed ?

2004-05-30 Thread lists
rpm --import http://www.fedoralegacy.org/FEDORA-LEGACY-GPG-KEY thanks, Del, yes, I found it in the docs... well, so far, so good, update processed OK, even though the ssh session apparenly hanged, when I logged in later, it told me all updates were done (and, there were only 8 or so updates

Re: [SLUG] rhn's /var/spool/up2date/* : is it needed ?

2004-05-29 Thread Terry Collins
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: RH73; is there much point keeping the files in up2date ? # du -H /var/spool/up2date 490M/var/spool/up2date I pressume these are all updates the system d/l from rhn, and, if I was to re-install from original media, I'd need all these to 'bring it back' to

Re: [SLUG] rhn's /var/spool/up2date/* : is it needed ?

2004-05-29 Thread Del
Terry Collins wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: RH73; is there much point keeping the files in up2date ? # du -H /var/spool/up2date 490M/var/spool/up2date I pressume these are all updates the system d/l from rhn, and, if I was to re-install from original media, I'd need all these to 'bring it

Re: [SLUG] rhn's /var/spool/up2date/* : is it needed ?

2004-05-29 Thread Chris Deigan
quote(Del); up2date is dead. long live yum. If you have RH73 then you should be getting your updates from www.fedoralegacy.org via yum, and not from RedHat any more, at which point everything in /var/spool/up2date can be removed, as it will begin to accumulate in /var/cache/yum instead. The

Re: [SLUG] rhn's /var/spool/up2date/* : is it needed ?

2004-05-29 Thread mlh
On Sat, 29 May 2004 20:12:22 +1000 Chris Deigan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The newer versions of up2date have support for yum and apt repositories. up2date is not totally dead. (Even if it sort of does suck). :-) Specifically because apt-rpm supports yum now yes? Matt -- SLUG - Sydney Linux

Re: [SLUG] rhn's /var/spool/up2date/* : is it needed ?

2004-05-29 Thread Del
The newer versions of up2date have support for yum and apt repositories. up2date is not totally dead. (Even if it sort of does suck). :-) Translation: Red Hat have rolled over on their insistence on a proprietary update protocol, in favour of more open stuff developed elsewhere, for both the

yam gpg, was Re: [SLUG] rhn's /var/spool/up2date/* : is it needed ?

2004-05-29 Thread lists
up2date is dead. long live yum. If you have RH73 then you should be getting your updates from www.fedoralegacy.org via yum, and not from RedHat any more, at which point everything in /var/spool/up2date can be removed, as it will begin to accumulate in /var/cache/yum instead. Del, I d/l

Re: yam gpg, was Re: [SLUG] rhn's /var/spool/up2date/* : is it needed ?

2004-05-29 Thread Del
is there something special I need to do ? Voytek rpm --import http://www.fedoralegacy.org/FEDORA-LEGACY-GPG-KEY Or for good measure: rpm --import /usr/share/rhn/RPM-GPG-KEY* rpm --import http://freshrpms.net/packages/RPM-GPG-KEY.txt rpm --import http://www.jpackage.org/jpackage.asc rpm --import

[SLUG] rhn's /var/spool/up2date/* : is it needed ?

2004-05-28 Thread lists
RH73; is there much point keeping the files in up2date ? # du -H /var/spool/up2date 490M/var/spool/up2date I pressume these are all updates the system d/l from rhn, and, if I was to re-install from original media, I'd need all these to 'bring it back' to same state ? also, what command will

Re: [SLUG] rhn's /var/spool/up2date/* : is it needed ?

2004-05-28 Thread David Gillies
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: RH73; is there much point keeping the files in up2date ? # du -H /var/spool/up2date 490M/var/spool/up2date I pressume these are all updates the system d/l from rhn, and, if I was to re-install from original media, I'd need all these to 'bring it back' to same state ?