What is the relation between yum and up2date?

William Hooper whooperhsd3 at earthlink.net
Sun Nov 16 02:28:25 UTC 2003


Mike Burger  said:
>
> 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.

Nope.  Up2date can use yum repositories to get updates from, but doesn't
use yum (check the RPM requires).

Yum, up2date, and apt are three ways to accomplish the same thing: 
identify dependencies, getting RPMs from repositories, and installing the
required RPMs.

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William Hooper





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