Do yum and up2date play nice? -- detail
Kyrre Ness Sjobak
kyrre at solution-forge.net
Mon Mar 14 20:16:21 UTC 2005
a quick sumup:
synaptic is a nice GUI for apt.
up2date is only usefull to show pending updates
yum is only usefull after fc2 (IMO), unless you are dealing with
multilib.
So for fc<3, use apt. For fc>3, use yum. If x86_64, use yum.
That is the simple explanation.
man, 14.03.2005 kl. 20.31 skrev beartooth:
> On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 13:44:39 -0500, seth vidal wrote:
>
> > choose one of:
> >
> > yum
> > up2date
> > apt/synaptic
> >
> >
> > and go with it.
> >
> > do not use all of them at once.
>
> Well, as long as yum is working -- which seems to take a lot more and more
> frequent tweaking -- I prefer it to up2date. (I haven't really tried
> synaptic yet; haven't even run it.) So at least on the FC1 machines, I
> should remove the launchers on the panel for up2date.
>
> Any advice as between synaptic and yum? I presume each has pros and cons.
>
> --
> Beartooth Implacable, Linux Evangelist & Gadfly
> neo-redneck, curmudgeonly codger with FC1&2, YDL4
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> Bear in mind that I have little idea what I am talking about.
>
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