Am Fr, den 21.11.2003 schrieb Michael um 20:24: > YUM is a package management facility. I believe (correct my if I'm wrong > pls up2date users), that up2date *can* use YUM, to do it's package-list up2date can use yum repositories, but doesn't use yum itself. It has those facilities build in. Yum repositories are ordinary ftp directories with additional information which enabled yum-enabled software to solve dependencies. > It only comes into play, afaik, when you tell it to (Via up2date > setup/config) use YUM for pakage management. I'm guessing the advantage > to using yum, or apt, over up2date (Or, rather, an advantage) is that > you are free to use non-rhn package repositories.. be them mirrored or fedora updates are not available via rhn. In the future (after eol of current RH Linux versions) I suppose rhn will be dedicated for paying enterprise customers. No demo accounts any more.
