yum vs. up2date
Satish Balay
balay at fastmail.fm
Wed Oct 27 16:17:53 UTC 2004
On Wed, 27 Oct 2004, Mike WItt wrote:
> I've been experimenting with yum and up2date. They both appear to
> have their merits. I've got a couple of additional questions.
>
> (1) Is it "safe" to use both yum and up2date?
yes
> It *appears* that
> one recognizes changes that were made by the other. Is this
> always the case?
Because both use 'rpmdb' to identify the current state of the
sytem. (the current state could have been arived at by use of
rpm/yum/up2date/apt/other-means previously)
> Or can you get in trouble if you don't stick
> to one or the other?
I don't think so.
>
> (2) What is the best way to go about finding the "right" repositories
> to use? Both in terms of getting the "correct" updates, and also
> in terms of not generating undue traffic?
The way I do this (with yum) is:
- /etc/yum.conf is the main config - which includes repositories which
I ALWAYS want to use. (fc1-release,fc1-updates,fc1-extras)
Now I can do 'yum update' all the time.
- I have separate configs for additional repositories - which I tend
to use occasionally - and look for only specific packages. (for eg: I
don't want all updates from 'dag' (like rsync - which might overwrite
fedora-release versions - just a couple of extra pacakges like pine).
So I have /etc/yum.conf.dag with (fc1-release,fc1-updates,fc1-extras,fc1-dag)
Now I can do 'yum -c /etc/yum.conf.dag update pine'
yum-2.1 - which comes with FC3 (beta) has a better way to manage this
(so I don't have to repeat fc1-release in both /etc/yum.conf &
/etc/yum.conf.dag
Satish
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