apt-get, yum or up2date

Tom Diehl tdiehl at rogueind.com
Tue Jan 27 04:13:17 UTC 2004


On Mon, 26 Jan 2004, Chris Gray wrote:

> 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.

And you can't do that with yum why??

Yum, apt and up2date have some features that are diferent. What you describe
above is not one of them.

For that matter you can most likely do that with up2date although I am not
sure since I do not use it.

HTH,

..........Tom





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