Ted wrote:
Hi, I'm new to Linux and currently using rpm with FC1. My questions are about using both yum and rpm for package management on a single system:
1. If I use yum to install package X, will rpm recognize package X is now installed?
2. Will rpm be able to update package X that was installed by yum?
3. Is it bad practice to mix yum and rpm for package management on my system? In other words, if I begin using yum, does that mean I should stop using rpm?
Many thanks, Ted.
Yum is only a front-end for rpm. It downloads all the needed files and then it uses rpm to install them... So , the answers are:
1 - yes , because rpm is behind yum...
2 - yes (and yum will be able to update X package that was installed by rpm , if there's the X package on a yum repository)
3 - no , it's not a bad practice .. Soon you'll be using yum a lot , because it saves you from the headache of trying to find the dependencies for a given package. Just run yum install X and it'll do the job. I use yum , apt and rpm all day and I assure you that there's no problems using (yum and rpm) or (yum , apt and rpm) or (apt and rpm) [the brackets are only for clarity... programming vices.. ;) ]
-- Pedro Macedo
