Is YUM superior to Synaptic ?? (was synaptic evolution)

[Gain Paolo Mureddu]

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>A good reason why the release version should not be hard -coded in the
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That's just what makes yum so flexible and suitable... You make a 
reference to the release version from a variable that is read from the 
system's own relase version files... Have you seen the config files for 
yum??

For example the URL of the mirrors list found in 
yum.repos.d/fedora-updates.repo:

mirrorlist=http://fedora.redhat.com/download/mirrors/updates-released-fc$releasever

Note the reference to $releasever? This WILL change as soon as you 
upgrade to FC4 accordingly. If read FC3 in there, you'd be trouble, but 
fortunately it does not.
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