Several questions

Michael Schwendt ms-nospam-0306 at arcor.de
Tue Nov 4 09:48:51 UTC 2003


On Tue, 4 Nov 2003 08:27:29 -0000, David.Pawson at rnib.org.uk wrote:

> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Thaddeus Nielsen 
> > My fedora 1 up2date uses yum and has worked much more smoothly
> > than the beta versions.  Have you downloaded the latest up2date
> > (4.1.14-2)?
> 
> For my education, does up2date act as a front end to yum please?
> I.e. its yum that retrieves packages from redhat, then hands off to rpm?

No. up2date just supports Yum and APT repositories. That means, it is
no longer limited to downloading packages from Red Hat Network.

Yum is a separate package management utility.

> I found the repeated mentions of yum confusing till this message
> gave a clue.

Why? A quick search at Google would have helped.

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