Is there an easy way to force YUM to reinstall a set of packages?
Rahul Sundaram
sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Wed Aug 15 05:58:26 UTC 2007
David Hagood wrote:
> Somewhat off topic: WHY the frotz was YUM chosen over APT for RPM as
> *the* way to update Fedora? APT has a much more mature feature set, and
> by using it you can leverage a degree of commonality with Debian based
> distros.
That was because apt-rpm was unmaintained, didn't support multi-lib etc
among several other reasons when yum was chosen.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Tools/Apt
Rahul
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