apt-get, yum or up2date

[Chris Gray]

I like apt because it supports wildcards (*). So, if I want to do an
upgrade to a range of packages I can do 'apt-get upgrade redhat-*' for
example.

Chris

-----Original Message-----
From: fedora-list-admin at redhat.com [mailto:fedora-list-admin at redhat.com]
On Behalf Of Kevin MacNeil
Sent: Sunday, January 25, 2004 6:41 AM
To: fedora-list at redhat.com
Subject: Re: apt-get, yum or up2date

On Fri, Jan 23, 2004 at 09:21:41AM +0100, Jan Houtsma wrote:

> In RH9 you only had up2date (as far as i know). Now i see people
> saying: "don't use up2date anymore, but apt-get" Why? Has one of these
> three tools big advantages above the other or is it only what one is
> already used to and then advice others also to do the same?

Apt is pretty cool. I use the Dag apt repository, which tracks all the
stock stuff, plus a pile of extras - pretty much anything you'd want to
add on top of a stock redhat/fedora distribution. All I have to do to
keep everything up to date is apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade.
Nothing could be simpler.

http://dag.wieers.com/packages/apt/


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