up2date vs. yum

[Gregory Pittman]

Jim Cornette wrote:

> Yum is easy to control at the command line. Up2date is barely 
> maintained any longer. If you like the GUI type interface, pup in 
> rawhide works fairly well. Pup is pretty much the replacement for 
> up2date. Pup works with yum.
>
> There are also a few GUI front-ends for yum. GNOME and KDE versions. 
> The front-ends work decent for the two that I tried before. Yum is my 
> main tool for updating. Pup for when I do not want or cannot update 
> certain packages that have conflicts. Yum plain sux when there are 
> package conflicts.


Some things are not necessarily yum's fault. Sometimes you may update 
when the server hasn't been fully loaded with all the collected 
necessary packages. Just wait and they'll be there later. Or use 'yum 
update --exclude=whatever-you-don't-want' to skip the offending package.

Greg