pretty up2date vs reliable yum?

[Paul Howarth]

Craig White wrote:
> up2date - whether run from cli or gui, polls the server for the mirror
> to use to obtain updates whereas yum has to be configured for exact
> repositories. 
> 
> There are times when up2date will be told to use a mirror and that
> mirror will time out or for some reason be unavailable and this is not
> predictable. This can usually be solved by closing out all of the
> up2date gui windows and starting again (it will poll for the mirror to
> use again and hopefully will get a new assignment).
> 
> Since yum uses only the specifically designated repositories, you will
> see if it/they fail immediately, thereby giving clue what is wrong and
> thus, is easier for this list to dissect.
> 
> When you use the up2date applet, you are not seeing the totality of the
> problems (my guess is that they are logged in /var/log/up2date)

The default FC3 install of yum also uses mirrorlists. However, there is 
not (yet) a properly integrated GUI for yum in FC3, though this may be 
fixed by the time FC4 appears.

Paul.