On Wed, 27 Oct 2004, Mike WItt wrote: > I've been experimenting with yum and up2date. They both appear to > have their merits. I've got a couple of additional questions. > > (1) Is it "safe" to use both yum and up2date? yes > It *appears* that > one recognizes changes that were made by the other. Is this > always the case? Because both use 'rpmdb' to identify the current state of the sytem. (the current state could have been arived at by use of rpm/yum/up2date/apt/other-means previously) > Or can you get in trouble if you don't stick > to one or the other? I don't think so. > > (2) What is the best way to go about finding the "right" repositories > to use? Both in terms of getting the "correct" updates, and also > in terms of not generating undue traffic? The way I do this (with yum) is: - /etc/yum.conf is the main config - which includes repositories which I ALWAYS want to use. (fc1-release,fc1-updates,fc1-extras) Now I can do 'yum update' all the time. - I have separate configs for additional repositories - which I tend to use occasionally - and look for only specific packages. (for eg: I don't want all updates from 'dag' (like rsync - which might overwrite fedora-release versions - just a couple of extra pacakges like pine). So I have /etc/yum.conf.dag with (fc1-release,fc1-updates,fc1-extras,fc1-dag) Now I can do 'yum -c /etc/yum.conf.dag update pine' yum-2.1 - which comes with FC3 (beta) has a better way to manage this (so I don't have to repeat fc1-release in both /etc/yum.conf & /etc/yum.conf.dag Satish
