Re: Why don't you guys like synaptic?

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There was a release (candidate) 8 ?  I thought we stopped at rc 5 ?  I
agree that yum wouldn't upgrade anymore; I had the same problem and
didn't have time to stop and find out why. 

There was a communication problem between the testers and the team in
the last week or so prior to releasing. 



On Thu, 2004-11-11 at 18:29 +0100, Nils Philippsen wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-11-11 at 12:01 -0500, seth vidal wrote:
> > On Thu, 2004-11-11 at 10:00 -0700, Kim Lux wrote:
> > > I knew about yum, but I had never used it until my involvement with FC3
> > > test.  I liked it.  Joe average doesn't want a textual install/update
> > > tool.  Put a synaptic type front end on yum and it too would be a
> > > winner. 
> > > 
> > > Ironically, yum on my machine is now broken <again> because the repos
> > > aren't pointing anywhere meaningful. 
> > 
> > the repos aren't pointing anywhere meaningful? Where did you get the yum
> > package? The yum package (in combination with fedora-release) that comes
> > with fc3 has working configuration files.
> 
> Just a side note: yum wouldn't update fedora-release-3-rawhide to
> fedora-release-3-8 for me, I had to do this manually.
> 
> Nils
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