[cumbria_lug] Yum...

[Adam Pigg]

did you find this out from this months linux format by any chance?

fortunately, as a mandrake user i can just urpmi everything, using the 'easy 
urpmi config' i have a work of software at my finger tips

and when my broadband arrives i will actually by able to make use of all that 
software :o)


On Saturday 30 Aug 2003 1:33 am, Schwuk wrote:
> Here's one for all you RPM based distro (you'll have to forgive my Red
> Hat bias for the rest of this mail) users out there...
>
> Keeping your system updated is never easy. Let's look at the options.
>
> 1) RedHat's up2date is good, but people just don't like paying for it
> and the cost is prohibitive for people running several machines.
>
> 2) apt4rpm works very well, although I've mainly used it for getting new
> applications/libs rather than updating my system.
>
> 3) ???
>
> As for 4) I've just discovered yum ( http://linux.duke.edu/projects/yum/
> ), which is like up2date and apt4rpm combined but without the custom
> servers required for up2date and the large package lists required for
> apt4rpm. It works directly with the rpm headers and the rpmdb.
> Development is very active, and their looking at ways of extending it
> into the enterprise grade package management arena. Why pay for a RHN
> Satellite Server when you can deploy your own solution?
>
> I've finished testing it on my main box, and now I'm going to start
> using it on all my boxes.
>
> Cheers,

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