On Thu, 2005-02-10 at 10:41 -0500, Cole Tuininga wrote: [snip]
> Furthermore, I was asking questions regarding yum because I have > interest in learning about it. Okay, here's at least some answers. You asked if yum had the equivalent of "apt-cache search". Well, I haven't used apt in a while, but does what it looks like it does, then, yes, the version of yum available in Fedora Core 3 has a "yum search" function which will do a glob and return a list of matching packages. You also asked if there were yum repos that have comparable selections of software to Debian. Ah, well, that's a tall order to fill ;-). But, the biggest two I know of are http://atrpms.net/ and http://dag.wieers.com/home-made/apt/. Both of them, I think, are both apt- and yum-enabled. There's also, of course, the venerable http://freshrpms.net/. > Honestly, I'd forgotten about apt for > rpm (from how little I hear of it, it sounds like it's little used? Is > this true? If so, anybody have thoughts as to why?) Well, there are certainly apt-rpm *fans* on the fedora lists ;-). One of the problems with apt-rpm, at least historically, is that it was a real PITA to create the repo from a directory of rpms. Yum, in contrast, was one simple yum command (forgot the subcommand -- it's been a while -- yum now has a separate 'createrepo' command). Also, historically, apt-rpm was atrocious performance-wise. That's improved dramatically, but explains one of the reasons the leaning was toward yum when Fedora Core was being conceived. And then there is the matter of the language it was written in: C++. Whatever your opinion of C++, the simple fact is that a significant portion of Red Hat's tools developers have historically known and been proficient in python. Yum is written in python. That meant it was going to be much simpler just from an on-going maintenance point of view to keep it integrated well with rpm and other admin tools within Fedora Core. That's just Fedora Core, of course, since that's my experience. Another thing to keep in mind is that there has been a common repo format in development for some time and I think that most of the depsolver tools will be able to grok it if they don't already. That's good news for everybody involved because it means repo maintainers can just 'createrepo' and have it immediately be accessible via apt-get, yum, urpm*, up2date and the like. -- -Paul Iadonisi Senior System Administrator Red Hat Certified Engineer / Local Linux Lobbyist Ever see a penguin fly? -- Try Linux. GPL all the way: Sell services, don't lease secrets _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
