up2date using Fedora Core 1

[Gregory Pleau]

> > Does the up2date / red exclamation point that is on the bottom
> > right of
> > the screen supposed to work in Fedora somehow or must I use "yum
> > update" instead?
> >
> >
> > =====
> > The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him
> > absolutely no good. -Samuel Johnson, lexicographer (1709-1784)
> 
> I was attempting to update my Fedora Core 1 system, although both
> through the GUI, and command line didn't work. Perhaps they are having
> some problems at their end(up2date servers).
> 
> Anybody having similar problems?
> 

Scads of problems. Timeouts, GPG signature NOT being added to the keyring
even though I run " rpm --import /usr/share/rhn/RPM-GPG-KEY ". I finally
just up and switched to yum. Especially when I found the freshrpms.net yum
repository and can get my mp3/dvd support back when I do something silly
like update xmms. 

Heck nice upgrade trick - 

Run up2date on your Redhat 7,8,9 system and bring it up to current.
Get fedora-release-1-3.rpm from ftp.redhat.com,
rpm -Uvh fedora-release-1-3.rpm
yum -y update

Wait a while and you get a nice upgrade to Fedora Core, without having to
shut the system down or download ISOs. Sometimes there might be about a
dozen dependencies but works great for remote upgrades.

- Greg

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