[CVALE] Fedora Core 5

[david burzota]

oops, I misunderstood.  The tool is called "Pup" or Package Updater, and it
doesnt seem to have all the functionality of Yum or Up2date.


>From: "Wayne Vieira" <wavieira at sbcglobal.net>
>Reply-To: cvale at cvale.org
>To: "'Pete Zaitcev'" <zaitcev at redhat.com>,<cvale at cvale.org>
>Subject: Re: [CVALE] Fedora Core 5
>Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2006 14:33:49 -0700
>
>Hi Pete,
>I agree it's pretty vague; that's part of the problem.  The "update tool" 
>(I
>still don't know what it's called) doesn't seem to have any obvious
>configuration component to it (up2date did, and it was easy to find on the
>menu), and when it says the update fails, it gives no error message why, 
>and
>selecting the 'okay' button just makes the updater disappear.  I typically
>like to give a few more details when asking for help, but am not certain
>where to start.  FC5 just configured it for me, and said nothing.  Maybe I
>can step back and ask some different questions:
>
>1.  What is the actual name of the tool (this would help with various 
>system
>and web searches on the topic; at least I could do a 'man <command>' on it.
>
>Actually, if someone has that info, it would probably go a long way.  Any
>other questions I might have (config files, howto's, error messages, etc.)
>would also be welcome, but are probably searchable, if I just new the
>*bleeping* name.
>
>Thanks,
>Wayne
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Pete Zaitcev [mailto:zaitcev at redhat.com]
>Sent: Wednesday, August 02, 2006 11:53 AM
>To: cvale at cvale.org
>Cc: wavieira at sbcglobal.net; zaitcev at redhat.com
>Subject: Re: [CVALE] Fedora Core 5
>
>On Tue, 1 Aug 2006 22:15:00 -0700, "Wayne Vieira" <wavieira at sbcglobal.net>
>wrote:
>
> > The updater (don't know what it's actually called; FC2 had up2date; Suse
>had
> > YOU) seemed to be broken after the initial update.  When it broke, it
>didn't
> > tell you where to look or what to configure; it just went away.
>
>That's a very vague description of the problem. Everything seems to
>work fine here.
>
>-- Pete
>
>
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