Updating FC3

[Chethiya K Ranaweera]

Thanks Billy, I tried smart, it is pretty good.


On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 18:07:00 -0500, Billy Tallis <wtallis at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 11 Mar 2005 20:33:27 -0500, Jim Cornette
> <fc-cornette at insight.rr.com> wrote:
> > 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
> >
> > --
> > How many hardware guys does it take to change a light bulb?
> >
> > "Well the diagnostics say it's fine buddy, so it's a software problem."
> >
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> 
> You may also want to grab the ambitious "smart package manager". see smartpm.org
> 
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Chethiya Ranaweera
Graduate Student
NC State University
Raleigh, NC