yum or up2date

[Greg Ennis]

Am So, den 21.03.2004 schrieb Greg Ennis um 22:16:
> Anyone,
> 
> Would you please point me in the right direction as to whether yum or up2date should
> be used for FC1.  I have looked in the archives and have not been able to figure out
> the pros and cons of each.  I presume that up2date downloads from RedHat and yum from
> one of the FC1 mirror sites.   I never had any difficulty using up2date on RH 7.1 and
> 8.0 systems, but using it on FC1 is difficult because it stops about every third file
> that is downloaded.
> 
> Sure would appreciate some information about the differences between these.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Greg Ennis

That has been discussed here before, also on
fedora-devel-list at redhat.com.

You can use both. See

http://fedoranews.org/contributors/alexander_dalloz/mirror/

for setup instructions. It shows you that both tools can use the same
repositories.

Alexander

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Alexander,

Thanks for the link (a great article and web site) as well as the advice about foreign threads!  Guess there is not a significant difference between yum or up2date?

Greg