up2date's built-in helptext do not match its actual behaviour... [root@localhost /root]# up2date You are not registered with Red Hat Network. To use Update Agent, You must be registered. However, you can continue now with an anonymous registration, and only your Red Hat Linux version and computer architecture will be sent to redhat.com. You are free to use the rhn_register later to take full advantage of the benefits offered by the Red Hat Network. To register anonymously, specify "--anonymous" as a command line option. Your GPG keyring does not contain the Red Hat, Inc. public key. Without it, you will be unable to verify that packages Update Agent downloads are securely signed by Red Hat. Your Update Agent options specify that you want to use GPG. Aborting. [root@localhost /root]# up2date --anonymous Traceback (innermost last): File "/usr/sbin/up2date", line 382, in ? main() File "/usr/sbin/up2date", line 263, in main print "Error parsing command line arguments: %s" % msg NameError: msg
This is fixed in an errata release, to be released shortly.