Hi Frank, > I am wondering if perhaps using yum and up2date > has somehow caused the problem. Perhaps they > cannot be used interchangably.
It should be possible to use both, but I also fear my system got messed up by doing just that. I now found that also my laptop has got a strange configuration. It's upgraded from FC3 to FC4-test3 and after that to FC4. I still find a lot of fc3 packages on the system for which already newer packages exist. Even smart doesn't upgrade those for some reason. On my fresh installed system smart seems to the job very well now and I have to agree with Axel that this seems the real next thing in package managers. It's very smooth and much more intuitive to use. Also the downloads go in parallel, which speeds up things a lot. > This is still a fairly new intallation of FC4. I > dont have much time invested in it, so a new, > clean reinstallation would not be a big deal. > However, since I dont know what happened, I cant > do anything to prevent it happening again. Exactly that is what I felt too. If I would know what went wrong or why I couldn't resolve the issues, things would be better to accept. Now I still fear that some day it will break again although I'm nearly certain that in my case it came mostly from upgrading from FC4-test3 to FC4 and the struggle I had with yum getting things done on my new 64bit system at that time. > I know this is a pretty general description of the > problem. Not enough specifics to allow real > diagnosis. I am mainly after some help in > uderstanding this problem. Was it caused, or > could it have been caused by using both yum and > up2date? If so which is better to use. Or is > there some other software that is better? I tested smart today and I do believe this to be much better already than yum and apt. I'll certainly keep using it. Regards, Marcel _______________________________________________ atrpms-users mailing list atrpms-users@atrpms.net http://lists.atrpms.net/mailman/listinfo/atrpms-users
