I was perusing the Fedora Extras repositories for something and came
across a collection of great add-ons for yum. Some of them are:
yum-versionlock Prevents yum from updating a designated package
yum-protectbase Allows yum to only use a specified repository for a
designated package even if available from somewhere else. I like this
one to prevent conflicts between say rpm.livna.org and freshrpms.net
yum-fastestmirror Tests the download mirrors for fastest speed instead
of the first available
yun-utils Contains Reposync (among other things), which is used to
synchronize a remote yum repository to a local directory using yum to
retrieve the packages. This way you can build your own repository on one
machine for use by all your machines instead of having all of them hit
the 'net.
With all these add-ons for yum I'm not sure what else is left that
apt-get and dpgk do that yum and rpm don't.
Gus
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