On Fri, Jun 06, 2003 at 04:47:16PM +0100, John Moore alleged: > Now I appear to have yum working OK, albeit with a 0.9.4 version (for now), > I'd liek to set things up so that I have the right repository. All the > listed ones are for Red Hat. What should I use for Mandrake 9.1? The only Mandrake repo I know of is here: http://mirrors.usc.edu/pub/yum-repository/mandrake/ Here's a sample yum.conf that you can start with here: http://speculation.org/garrick/yum.conf Here's an SRPM of the latest yum for Mandrake (the conf in the rpm is for mdk 8.2, so use the conf in the link above): ftp://polop.usc.edu/pub/srpms/yum-1.0.1-4gs.src.rpm With access to both yum and urpmi, we have it good on Mandrake :) The primary difference, from a user's perspective, is that yum updates it's local headers everytime it runs. The urpmi headers must be updated manually with 'urpmi.update'. Very generally speaking, if you are doing one operation, yum is faster; if you are doing several operations, it's nice to update *once* with urpmi. 'yum list' is slower than 'urpmq -y' 'yum info' doesn't exist in urpmi yum has "install" and "upgrade" commands, urpmi doesn't differentiate between the two (which is a behaviour I prefer).
