Hi, > 1 - Of the package tools that are now offered for Fedora (rpm, yum, > up2date, apt?, red-carpet, others?), which ones are able to > automatically get the package from the net? Which ones automatically > also get the dependencies? Which ones who me a list of all of the ones > that are available (like Debian's aptitude or the dreaded dselect)? yum. Set it as a cron job and let it do the rest. > 2 - I tried up2date once. It seemed like it was headed down the right > track of addressing the issues that I had with RedHat in the past, > regarding automatic downloads from a central source. There are plenty of mirrors now :-) > However, it > *seemed* as though it was merely getting security-patched releases of > selected packages. For example, if I had installed Foo 1.0 and Bar 1.0 > with the release CD, and then a new version of Foo (1.1) comes out and a > security-patch for Bar (1.0.1) comes out... it seemed that up2date would > only get the Bar 1.0.1. Foo would come out after a while. It's unusual for it not to. > In short, you're still stuck with the old > versions and their old capabilities, unless there is a security issue or > serious bug that needs fixing. Contrast this with Debian, where I can > point my apt sources.list file to the "unstable" store and I've always > got the latest releases of everything (except major version-number > changes. I'd rather not go down that road, my views on Debian are well known and you have stated that you don't want a religious war on here ;-) Suffice to say, if you don't want a package, --exclude=<package-name> will ensure you don't get that package. > 3 - With Debian, there are oodles of packages available on the official > site and mirrors. Ditto Fedora. Pile upon piles of them. They just aren't held on the Fedora servers, which is the difference. freshrpms & fedora-extras are just two of many such places. TTFN Paul -- "I don't know how World War III will be fought, but I do know World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones" - Einstein
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