On Thu, 2005-03-10 at 19:17 -0800, Jared Buck wrote:
Alternatively, you may run a utility called "yum" from the console. yum is the utility that up2date uses (up2date is really just a GUI frontend for yum).
up2date is *not* just a frontend for yum. It is a completely separate program that happens to be able to access yum repositories as a data source. It can *also* access apt repositories, which yum cannot do.
Which service you use is up to you, it's a matter of personal preference.
That is certainly true.
Paul.
Just to add noise. Yum on my system is currently down (rawhide), up2date is working but up2date-gnome (rawhide) has some problems with the selector. Up2date is a different program than yum, the frontend of up2date may go bad, but up2date (non-gui) still works.
Up2date can deal with yum, apt or rhn repositories and does not depend upon yum or apt for any of its functionality.
yum - a utility seperate from up2date up2date - flexible but independent from other updating programs.
Now dependent libraries. That's another issue.
Jim
-- How many hardware guys does it take to change a light bulb?
"Well the diagnostics say it's fine buddy, so it's a software problem."
