gyum rpms ?

Eric Tanguy eric.tanguy at physique.univ-nantes.fr
Wed Dec 8 22:57:58 UTC 2004


Le mercredi 08 décembre 2004 à 19:18 +0000, Paul Howarth a écrit :
> On Wed, 2004-12-08 at 12:03 -0700, Kim Lux wrote:
> > Here is an article describing a graphical yum app:
> > 
> > http://fedoranews.org/tchung/gyum/fc3/
> >  
> > Where are the rpms for this app (and for the update yum app)?
> 
> This article has already been superseded by another:
> 
> http://fedoranews.org/tchung/gyum/2.0/
> 
> The new gyum works with the yum 2.1.x that comes with FC3. However, it
> wants to see all the repo information in a single file, rather than
> using the one-repo-per-file structure preferred by yum 2.1.x. As such,
> it moves aside your existing yum.conf at installation time and replaces
> it with a new version. So any repos you may have in /etc/yum.repos.d
> will subsequently be ignored. 

Why gyum can't use the one-repo-per-file structure with some buttons to
enable disabled repo just for a moment ?

> An alternative to gyum would be to use the new smart package manager
> (http://www.smartpm.org/). FC3 RPMs for this can be found in Dag's
> repository at http://dag.wieers.com/packages/smart/ This can work with
> yum and apt repositories and has many good features. Well worth a look.

I tried it but it does not seem to use yum and yum.conf but its own repo
structure.

> Paul.
> -- 
> Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org>
> 
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