On Fri, February 20, 2004 at 4:56 pm, Charles R. Anderson wrote:On Fri, Feb 20, 2004 at 02:47:10PM -0600, Eric Rostetter wrote:* yum ignores kernel updates by default, but apt doesn't. * yum doesn't auto install any gpg keys, but apt does.
Should we not try to make these consistent between yum and apt? Or is the yum/apt history that says they should act differently?
I brought this up at the time I packaged yum, but there was no consensus other than yum should behave the same way up2date did (which is why it exludes kernels by default), and root's gpg keyring shouldn't be messed with automatically by the package.
Does anyone use apt non-interactively, i.e. via cron? If not, then these differences don't matter too much I guess. I view apt as a nicer user interface, more featureful sysadmin tool to be used interactively, not as an autoupdate mechanism.
It seems that people either prefer to use yum or apt and tend to not mix the two. People familiar with apt will very likely use it non-interactively via cron, especially those who come from a Debian background. apt for Fedora Legacy should probably behave like the original apt, unless there is a good reason not to.
I use apt on Debian machines non-interactively, but only to download new
stuff, and let me know that I need to run upgrade myself. I use yum on
the Fedora-Legacy boxes rather than apt, because I want to make sure I
realize they are different than the Debian boxes. I'll probably switch
over to apt on them, when I am comfortable doing so.
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