[issue51] More friendly gui ?

[Neal Becker]

On Wednesday 18 January 2006 5:19 pm, Michael Mansour wrote:
> Hi Jon,
>
> > jon <linux.learner at gmail.com> added the comment:
> >
> > web based is an option. but that might require a daemon (not sure on
> > that). it would certainly require smart to listen on a particular
> > port from local host
> > (mush the same way X listens to port 6000).
>
> One of the main things I like about yum, is an add-on called pakiti (used
> to be called yumit). Nightly checks are run in the normal way, but are
> logged to a MySQL database which can be viewed via a webpage, so you can
> see which systems (almost any linux based systems) which need updating from
> a webpage.
>
There are many yum guis.  FC5 comes with yumex, which is pretty good.