Joe Emenaker wrote:
Joe,
Yum or Apt are what you will be using and they will deal with the dependancies for you. Apt will be the best path for you I reckon :-)
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?
You will get both Foo & Bar, packages will be upgraded in a timely fashion and you can always exclude packages from being downloaded/select new ones.
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. However, it *seemed* as though it was merely getting security-patched releases of selected packages.
I install Debian 2 and run apt regularly, as Debian 3 is nearing release, my machine would gradually be picking up the new Debian 3 versions of packages as they passed testing.
Well, up to recently I was running FC2 and FC3 on different machines. Different update paths as they were different releaxses.
An upgrade is effectively possible via yum/apt-get but would be a lot more tricky than doing an update via CD as you really need anaconda (the installer package) to be able to upgrade properly.
My case was easier as i have physical access to all my servers/workstations
For those using any of the
automatic-package-and-dependency-download-and-install tools, approximately what percentage of your packages (especially new versions of packages) come from NON-official RedHat sources?
You will find plenty of mirrors around the world, "together with FreshRPMS, PlanetCCRMA and Dries, we're working towards a merge under the RPMforge umbrella" (http://dag.wieers.com/home-made/apt/)
HTH Thierry
