CentOS 5 x86_64 -- where is up2date?

Lonni J Friedman netllama at gmail.com
Sat Sep 8 21:42:41 PDT 2007


I'm pretty sure that up2date was replaced with yum.  Even if it
wasn't, why would you want to use up2date if you already have yum?

On 9/8/07, Bill Campbell <linux-sxs at celestial.com> wrote:
> I'm trying to create an install server with all updates
> installed, using a script that works on CentOS 4.5, but fails on
> CentOS 5.0 as the /usr/bin/up2date program isn't available.
>
> ``yum search up2date'' returns references to up2date, but when I
> run ``yum install up2date'' it doesn't find anything to update.
>
> Here's the output of ``yum search up2date''.
>
> Loading "installonlyn" plugin
> Setting up repositories
> Reading repository metadata in from local files
>
> booty.noarch                             0.80.4-1               base
> Matched from:
> Small python library for use with bootloader configuration by anaconda
> and up2date.
>
> booty.noarch                             0.80.4-1               installed
> Matched from:
> Small python library for use with bootloader configuration by anaconda
> and up2date.
>
> I have installed anaconda and anaconda-runtime.
>
> Bill

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