Jason Aeschilman said: > Robert Shepard wrote: > >> I just installed fedora core 2 this weekend, and I was wondering: >> What are the differences between apt, yum, and up2date? I had been >> running Mandrake, and it seems that urpmi did all of the functions of >> these 3 applications, although I may be mistaken about their usage. > > I don't think there are a lot of differences. apt and yum basically do > the same thing. up2date uses yum to download and update the system. up2date doesn't use yum. up2date has the ability to use yum _repos_, just like up2date has the ability to use apt _repos_. It uses neither apt or yum, though, it is self contained. -- William Hooper
