On Tue, Aug 10, 2004 at 12:18:11PM +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote: > > Does up2date have any advantages over "yum update" ? There is one difference that I value. up2date will also download the source rpm if that option is turned on. Last I checked yum does not yet have this option but an enhancement request has been made. > Incidentally, if one has several machines with slightly different > setups, is there any simple way to avoid duplication of RPM > downloads with yum? Since up2date and yum can fetch packages from a yum repository you can cross expose your download caches as a yum resources via html or NFS. You can also use rsync or just scp if you have the disk space. There have been a number of postings on how to setup a yum repository. Google should find them for you. -- T o m M i t c h e l l Just say no to 74LS73 in 2004
