On Mon, 2003-11-17 at 15:47, Jesse Kline wrote: > > Yum is very good at handling dependancy problems. It is much better than > > apt-rpm. What it lacks though is a graphical interface. I think you will > > find that yum is very efficient in handling updates. Where as if you > > wanted to know what packages are available as 3rd Party addons, apt-rpm > > and synergy will be much more convenient to use. > > Not from what I've seen. At the first sign of trouble, it died and gave me > an error message saying that one package depends on another, but didn't > bother telling me what version it was looking for or anything.
Yeah that's not yum's problem. The dependency isn't offered by the repositories you are using most likely. As for the version number issue, it didn't give you that because that information wasn't provided in the package. (ie spec-file) Again not a YUM problem. > And 12 hours > to download headers on a cable modem! That's rediculous! That is just weird. I downloaded them in 5 minutes max. > It also doesn't > bother to check if there is enough disk space for the install. It did > exactly what I thought it was going to do, downloaded RPMS untill I had no > space left on the disk, and then it died. I'm sorry but I've used urpmi and > apt, and they both kick ass, but I cannot find one good thing to say about > yum. This is a problem yes. It's a pretty dumb cli program when it comes to that stuff. -- Mark Lane, CET mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Hard Data Ltd. http://www.harddata.com T: 01-780-456-9771 F: 01-780-456-9772 11060 - 166 Avenue Edmonton, AB, Canada, T5X 1Y3 --> Ask me about our Excellent 1U Systems! <--
