On Fri, 2003-11-21 at 21:24, Michael wrote: > 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. up2date doesn't and can't *use* yum, but the version in FC1 supports yum and apt repositories natively. > > 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. With the new up2date you can just point it to yum or apt repositories and it'll happily use those. Actually the FC1 up2date by default uses a yum repository - there's no RHN channel for Fedora Core. - Panu -
