On Thu, 2004-11-11 at 14:30 -0500, William Hooper wrote: > Lamar Owen said: > [snip] > > I have used both apt-get for RPM and yum, and I have used both yumi (aka > > CoBind Manager) and synaptic. From a professional's point of view, > > synaptic/apt is superior in a number of ways: > [snip] > from a scratch WBEL3 respin1 install in both cases, > [snip] > > If you are basing your experience on WBEL, you are using an old version of > yum. I have to concur: I've tried both current yum and current apt to upgrade FC2->FC3. My experience with both of them basically matches with Lamar's. In addition to that, a "special" experience was using yum on connections with overloaded ftp-servers ... AFAIU, apt downloads its files in "one rush", while yum iteratively downloads the package headers. With overloaded servers rejecting or refusing connections on the remote end, yum bombed out with all kind of errors. I'll continue to use apt. Ralf -- Ralf Corsepius Forschungsinstitut fuer Anwendungsorientierte Wissensverarbeitung (FAW) Helmholtzstr. 16, 89081 Ulm, Germany Tel: +49/731/501-8690 mailto:corsepiu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx FAX: +49/731/501-999 http://www.faw.uni-ulm.de