On Sun, 2003-11-16 at 06:51, Alexandre Oliva wrote: > On Nov 15, 2003, Mike Burger <mburger@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > On Sat, 15 Nov 2003, Timothy Murphy wrote: > > >> What can yum do that up2date cannot do in Fedora-1.0? > >> How exactly are the programs related? > > > Up2date makes use of yum to download and install the updates. > > More accurately, up2date is a RHN, yum and apt client. It doesn't > need yum or apt to talk to yum or apt repositories, though, it has the > functionality built in. Why has it been implemented this way? To me, this doesn't necessarily sound like a good design (Reinventing the wheel?). Ralf
