up2date vs. yum

[Jim Cornette]

Joao Paulo Pires wrote:

> Date: Mon, 09 Jan 2006 22:21:22 -0500
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> From: Jim Cornette <fc-cornette at insight.rr.com>
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> Subject: Re: up2date vs. yum
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> Michael D. Berger wrote:
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>>Which to use? The fedora web page recommends yum, and it sounds yummy, 
> but up2date blinks attractively.
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>>What are the advantages and disadvantages of each?
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>>Thanks for your advice.
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>>Mike.
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>>Michael D. Berger
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>>m.d.berger at ieee.org
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> Yum is easy to control at the command line. Up2date is barely maintained
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> any longer. If you like the GUI type interface, pup in rawhide works
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> fairly well. Pup is pretty much the replacement for up2date. Pup works
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> with yum.
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> There are also a few GUI front-ends for yum. GNOME and KDE versions. The
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> front-ends work decent for the two that I tried before. Yum is my main
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> tool for updating. Pup for when I do not want or cannot update certain
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> packages that have conflicts. Yum plain sux when there are package
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> conflicts. Jim
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> If Should Up2date is barely maintained, should I uninstall Up2date?
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> Best regards, Joao.
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I would start using other updating utilities. Since you are comfortable 
with up2date and how it works, keeping up2date until you learn another 
updating tool would not hurt anything. Up2date is still in the 
development repository and was rebuilt Jan 11, 2006. There has not been 
any upgrades to up2date for FC4 since the FC version was released.  I 
believe the upgrades were only for compatibility with shared scripting 
languages and shared libraries. I have not used up2date since installing 
FC5T1, so I do not know if it is functional or broken.
I still use up2date on another system with FC4 because it serves its 
purpose.  It has advantages over yum when no network is installed. Of 
course, using rpm directly would work as well on this no Internet 
connection computer.

Jim

Jim

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