yum works better than apt-get

[Andy Green]

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Rick Lim wrote:
| Who ever said apt-get was better than yum IMHO is right.
|
| On one system apt-get definely worked better, but on another system that I
| upgraded from FC1 to FC3 yum fails miserably and so does apt-get, here is
| what I get, anyone have any ideas on how to fix this one????

|         file /usr/bin/kmail from install of kdepim-3.3.1-1.FC3.1 conflicts
| with file from package kdenetwork-3.1.4-1

I have to speak up for yum - I used apt from Redhat 9 and yum is
generally more sophisticated with one exception AFAIK [1] - and I'm
pretty sure more intensively developed.  And on this machine you say
apt-get does no better, so not sure why you identify it as a yum problem.

IIRC kmail did move from kdenetwork to kdepim between FC1 and FC3, so
the errors have some basis in reality.

Do Redhat say you can get from FC1 to FC3 via yum?  I don't think so.  I
think I would try moving FC1 -> FC2 as an intermediate step.  I actually
did this FC1->FC2 "dist-upgrade" using yum on a remote server in another
country, admittedly without X or KDE, and it worked great.  That's not
bad considering it updated from a 2.4 kernel to 2.6.

- -Andy

[1] My family have a habit of turning off their notebooks while they are
being updated, resulting in duplicate packages in the rpm database.
apt-get had a neat trick of fixing this, if yum can do the same useful
fix I didn't find out how yet.
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