On Wed, 2005-09-07 at 14:20 -0400, Steven Stromer wrote: > Thanks for responding Glen. Based on your similar observations, I am > starting to view up2date as more equivalent to the rpm command; both are > mainly intended for MANAGING the packages that make Fedora Core work. > Thus, yum becomes the tool for EXTENDING Fedora. When I view it this > way, I find the whole package management system a bit more graspable. The current situation is definitely a bit confusing. Add/Remove Applications (system-config-packages), up2date and the Alerter Icon were originally written to work together on supported Red Hat systems pulling packages from the install CDs and RHN. These are going to be replaced in Fedora by yum and new graphical applications built on yum, but the current Fedora releases carry both the old RH applications and yum. FWIW, we (documenters) are trying to gently steer people away from the other applications and towards yum, since it can install individual packages and carry out updates more effectively, as well as performing the standard functions with your choice of repositories. You might find this helpful: http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/yum/sn-software-management-tools.html -- Stuart Ellis stuart@xxxxxxxx Fedora Documentation Project: http://fedora.redhat.com/projects/docs/ GPG key ID: 7098ABEA GPG key fingerprint: 68B0 E291 FB19 C845 E60E 9569 292E E365 7098 ABEA -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part Url : http://lists.dulug.duke.edu/pipermail/yum/attachments/20050907/f1519824/attachment.bin
