Tony Nelson wrote:
At 12:30 PM -0500 7/5/05, Mike McCarty wrote:
Paul Howarth wrote:
Benjamin Sher wrote:
Is there a gui version of yum?
[snip]
kyum and yumex are both available in Fedora Extras for FC4 and can be
installed using yum install ...
For RHEL4 I would just stick to using up2date.
Paul.
I heard that there were several defects in up2date for FC4. Can anyone
verify?
I can.
The blue dot with the checkmark always presents that innocent-looking
appearance. Even when updates are available on the channels on which
up2date listens, that little blue checkmark doesn't change. I would have
expected to see a throbbing read screamer ("exclamation point").
But the one time I launched up2date, it seemed to draw all the repo
metadata on all channels that I had set up that way. A /repomd/
(repository metadata) channel follows the instructions given in a
corresponding .repo file in /etc/yum.repos.d/. So you /can/ get updates.
But you have to remember to launch up2date, or yum, or smart, every
morning to stay up to date.
I use smart, myself. I took the tarball from http://www.smartpm.org/ and
ran make and make rpm, and then I installed the rpm. That allows me to
recognize smart as part of the rpm installed base. But I also have
yumex, and yes, Fedora Extras /does/ have it.
I think smart is going to take over very rapidly. With it, I can set
definite preferences for repositories that might create compatibility
issues, make sure that compatibility conflicts do not occur, and even
/repair/ any such issues that come about through the use of other
packages. But the developer will need to write a script to put smart
into the GNOME menu. (How /do/ you add something to the menus? I can add
applications to panels, but not to menus--or rather, I'm missing the
procedure for doing that.)
Temlakos
