Re: OT: Apt-get vs YUM?

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Kevin Kofler wrote:
Matej Cepl <mcepl <at> redhat.com> writes:
Don't want to fight on any side of this perenial religious war, but just to note that package-cleanup --problems (package-cleanup is in yum-utils package) works pretty well for the first issue.

I got the yum-utils package and tried yum package-cleanup --problems does not work. Do not know why not.

Karl


That's the equivalent of apt-get check (i.e. only fixes existing breakage). It won't help when yum is erroring on the update because the update would break a dependency, apt-get dist-upgrade will actually offer to remove the broken package to allow the upgrade to proceed in such cases. Also note that apt-get check will actually offer to _fix_ the breakage, not just list it.

Note that apt won't actually let you do anything other than fixing the breakage on a system with broken dependencies, it's built on the invariant that no dependency should ever be broken. Fixing will first try to install missing packages and/or upgrade the broken packages to newer versions if that fixes the breakage, and if it doesn't, it will remove the broken packages.

All your solutions (also the --exclude one) involve lots of manual work whereas apt will try to figure out a solution automatically.

        Kevin Kofler



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