up2date is yum?

Satish Balay balay at fastmail.fm
Sun Feb 13 18:06:25 UTC 2005


On Mon, 14 Feb 2005, Wong Kwok-hon wrote:

> On Sun, 13 Feb 2005 09:45:58 -0600 (CST), Satish Balay
> <balay at fastmail.fm> wrote:
>>
>>
>> On Sun, 13 Feb 2005, Jared Buck wrote:
>>
>>> yes, it's yum.  Look in the channel information (the first screen that
>>> appears when you use up2date at the bottom.  up2date is simply a GUI
>>> interface for yum.  To be honest with you, i prefer using yum anyway, it
>>> works better at updating the OS than Windoze Update ever has been.
>>
>> The above info is wrong.
>>
>> Up2date doesn't use any yum code. It can hower use either of the
>> following repositories.
>>
>>   - yum repository
>>   - apt repository
>>   - rhn channel [aka RHEL]
>>
>> Internally both up2date & yum invoke rpm [via rpm's python bindings].
>>
>> Satish
>
> But yum seem not compatible with system-config-packages. Do the up2date also ?
>
> Wong Kwok Hon
>
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