"G. Matthew Rice" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Someone commented last week that we should be testing more than
> just apt-get for the deb side of the exam.
> My questions on that side are, should we:
>   1. test awareness of the apt-* tool set?
>   2. test ability to use the apt-* tool set?
>   3. dump dselect? :)

Test DPKG when you test RPM.
Test APT when you test YUM.

APT !~ RPM, APT ~ YUM.  ;)

And if you consider Portage, then test it when you test for APT/YUM
(not DPKG/RPM).

I'm not saying you should test these, I'm just saying they are the
relationships between the different packging tools (and port-source
in the case of Portage).

> On the RPM side, we aren't testing an equivalent to apt-get. 
> Should we add in yum (or something else)?

You should _always_ test YUM if you test APT.
You should _always_ test DPKG if you test RPM.

People who use DPKG systems use APT.
People who use RPM systems use YUM.

I haven't used RPM directly in a long time.

> Someone (Bryan?) also commented that the yum level could be
> justified in moving to LPIC-2? 

No, I'd do the opposite!

Put basic APT and YUM in LPIC-1.
Put advanced DPKG and RPM resolution in LPIC-2.

> Does anyone else feel this way?  That would lead
> me to think that apt-get should be moved to LPIC-2, as well.
> I know.  The horror.  I use apt-get 50-100 times for every
> once that I use dpkg.

That's what YUM users say about RPM.  ;)

> Or did I misread that comment?

Yes, you did, but that's okay.
You were just asking questions, and I now answered.



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