Hi Angle, We tried a variety of different packages, apt, yum, autoupdate and others, and evaluated them. apt and yum were the top two we found, but we ended up going with yum. apt did have some things that yum doesn't, mainly a graphical interface if wanted, but since that wasn't high on our priorities, it didn't help. apt also had the ability to create it's own local header respository for repositories that don't already have one. But this is very network intensive so we weren't sure if it was a plus or a minus. But there was two main things that caused us to use yum. 1-Since yum is based off the rpm-python libraries, it get's better as rpm get's better, automatically. We also have the same rpm for both our 7.1.1 release and our 7.3.1 release, without having to recompile. Since our 7.1.1 release has an older version of rpm, there are some things that it doesn't do as well, but it still does it main job without problems. 2-apt is very picky, it makes the repository have to be perfect, and I don't mean just the headers, all the rpm's have to be just right. This ended up being annoying, and as we looked into the future, we didn't want to be burdoned with this. yum on the other hand will let you install anything as long as you could do it by hand by rpm in the first place (as long as you don't force it). It let you add things to your local machine without it knowing, and it doesn't whine about that, it just accepts it and moves on. There were some other things like responsiveness of the developers and how quick bug fixes and features were inplemented, but the main thing was that second point for us. Troy Dawson Angles Puglisi wrote: > I just wondering, could you point me to a summary about the benefits and > differences of Yum vs. apt for rpm? Or your own personal experiences if you have > tried both? > > Thanks. > > -- > That's "angle" as in geometry. > > > _______________________________________________ > Yum mailing list > Yum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://lists.dulug.duke.edu/mailman/listinfo/yum -- __________________________________________________ Troy Dawson dawson@xxxxxxxx (630)840-6468 Fermilab ComputingDivision/OSS CSI Group __________________________________________________
