On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 07:21:55AM +0700, Andrey Subbotin wrote: > > I've got another stupid question about updates in FC1: what's the > difference between up2date amd yum? And, then, if there's none except > the GUI of up2date, does up2date look at /etc/yum.conf or should I > actually put everything about repositories into > /etc/sysconfig/rhn/sources? They are two separate programs: yum looks at /etc/yum.conf up2date looks at /etc/sysconfig/rhn/sources It turns out that up2date understands the protocol that yum uses. It can use yum repositories. The config line format is a little different. So far I have found that the up2date GUI hides a number of errors that it cannot recover from yet. They share a lot of python source code so eventually there will be no difference of value between the two in terms of reliability. BOTH need a better list of mirrors as comments in the distribution. Perhaps a 'get_mirror_list' option or some other mirror discovery strategy. Fedora is a community project but up2date/yum do not leverage the bandwidth of the community yet. -- T o m M i t c h e l l mitch48-at-sbcglobal-dot-net
