Updating FC3

Paul Howarth paul at city-fan.org
Fri Mar 11 08:58:09 UTC 2005


On Thu, 2005-03-10 at 19:17 -0800, Jared Buck wrote:
> Alternatively, you may run a utility called "yum" from the console.  yum
> is the utility that up2date uses (up2date is really just a GUI frontend
> for yum).

up2date is *not* just a frontend for yum. It is a completely separate
program that happens to be able to access yum repositories as a data
source. It can *also* access apt repositories, which yum cannot do.

> Which service you use is up to you, it's a matter of personal
> preference.

That is certainly true.

Paul.
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