David Timms wrote:
Giap Phan Vu wrote:I'm making compare between YUM, APT-RPM and Smart update tools but I really do not know what is the strongest, the weakness of these tools. The target platform is CentOS (or Wind River)I like yum {haven't used apt-rpm, smart for some time} because it's extensible nature allows a config that does what I wan't {skip-broken, download-only, version lock (good for eg machines running vmware where akernel update stops stuff working)}
For me the main advantages of yum over smart (which can also handle yum repositories) is that : - yum is the official package manager for RHEL, meaning that I can download packages from RHN (with yum-rhn-plugin activated) via command line script. - yum (yum-utils, actually) has yumdownloader, reposync, and repotrack, which is handy if you want to create local repository mirrors. Especially useful if you have lots of servers and want to save bandwitdth. - yum-utils has yum-priorities plugin, which is important because in our setup we need to replace some upstream packages. yum-priorities make sure packages in our local repository doesn't get overwritten by other sources. It can also be used the other way around, to make sure that RHEL/Centos RPMs doesn't get overwritten by packages from third-party repositories.
apt-rpm (and synaptic) is another beast altogather, and not all RHEL/Centos repositories support downloading with apt.
Regards, Fajar
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