On 21, Ryan Daly wrote: > On Fri, 2003-11-21 at 11:44, Preston Crawford wrote: > > More to the point, can't you "track" different repositories? > > > > Like, I only track stable in yum.conf, so I'm not getting that many > > updates. > > Sorry for my ignorance here, but does someone have a quick explanation > of what YUM is and where its involved in the up2date process? 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 retrieval/reconciling/installation and dependancy resolution stuffs. But it surely doesn't (Or didn't) need YUM for that functionality. 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 custom.. and not to mention it's a gui interface for yum. For apt we already have synaptic... but yum did not, last I heard.. until new up2date. -mike -- Michael Clewley
