Updating FC3

[Jim Cornette]

Paul Howarth wrote:
> 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.

Just to add noise. Yum on my system is currently down (rawhide), up2date 
is working but up2date-gnome (rawhide) has some problems with the 
selector. Up2date is a different program than yum, the frontend of 
up2date may go bad, but up2date (non-gui) still works.
Up2date can deal with yum, apt or rhn repositories and does not depend 
upon yum or apt for any of its functionality.

yum - a utility seperate from up2date
up2date - flexible but independent from other updating programs.

Now dependent libraries. That's another issue.

Jim


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