On Fri, 11 Mar 2005 20:33:27 -0500, Jim Cornette <fc-cornette@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Paul Howarth wrote: > > 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." > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > You may also want to grab the ambitious "smart package manager". see smartpm.org
