What is the relation between yum and up2date?

[Alexandre Oliva]

On Nov 15, 2003, Mike Burger <mburger at bubbanfriends.org> wrote:

> On Sat, 15 Nov 2003, Timothy Murphy wrote:

>> What can yum do that up2date cannot do in Fedora-1.0?
>> How exactly are the programs related?

> Up2date makes use of yum to download and install the updates.

More accurately, up2date is a RHN, yum and apt client.  It doesn't
need yum or apt to talk to yum or apt repositories, though, it has the
functionality built in.

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