Exile In Paradise said: > On Thu, 2003-12-11 at 14:50, William Hooper wrote: > <snip> > >> Up2date and rhn_applet only look at /etc/sysconfig/rhn/sources. apt and >> yum only look at their respective conf files. > > Right, if YUM and Up2date are both hitting YUM repositories then you > should have the same repositories listed in both places? > > And when APT is also up2date-friendly, then you should put the same > repositories in both places as well? Depends on how you use it. If you plan on using up2date then you don't even need yum or apt installed. > Thats what seems breakable, 2 different config files to update for each > repository type... Flexable. I'll give you an example: I like grabbing some packages from FreshRPMs, but don't care about some of the updates they have to things Fedora ships. I don't have FreshRPMs in my sources file, so the rhn_applet doesn't always show an update available. However, if I want a Fresh RPMs package I can just "yum install". >> > What conflicts tend to come up using APT and YUM sources together? >> >> This depends a lot on the sources. If more than one source provides a >> package then you might get a different package than you were expecting. > > That seems like it could lead to some strange(tm) results. True. >> Channel names are whatever you want to call them. There isn't a rule >> that >> says it must be anything, but I generally follow what the maintainer >> has. >> For example: >> http://ayo.freshrpms.net/fedora/linux/1/i386/freshrpms becomes freshrpms >> (as opposed to fedora-core-1 or fedora-core-updates-released). > > So, the channel name is the last part of the HTTP in that case... thats > what seems unclear to me... am I understanding correctly the convention > for where the channel names come from correctly? That's what I use. "Convention" is a little strong, though :-) > Sounds like you could roll your own if you wanted (which I never find > objectionable... more flexibility and choice, and if yer a UNIX admin, > its okay for software to assume you know what you're doing) Much more "roll your own". -- William Hooper
