yum or up2date

[Chadley Wilson]

apt-get with synaptic front-end
or redcarpet by Ximian
I prefer red-carpet

On Mon, 2004-03-22 at 01:07, Greg Ennis wrote:
> 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
> 
> P.S. Please do not hijack foreign threads. Start new topic with an empty
> mail editor window.
> -----------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> 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
> 
> 

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