On Wed, Nov 07, 2007 at 03:59:38PM -0500, G. Matthew Rice 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?
I find apt-cache very useful, at least apt-cache search and apt-cache show. apt-cache showpkg is also great for figuring out dependancy things. > 3. dump dselect? :) Yes. It is deprecated entirely. aptitude is now the recommended tool to use (apt-get * can be directly replaced by aptitude * today). No debian admin would ever consider the use of dselect anymore. > On the RPM side, we aren't testing an equivalent to apt-get. Should we add > in yum (or something else)? > > Someone (Bryan?) also commented that the yum level could be justified in > moving to 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. dpkg is low level and should only be needed for special cases. apt-get or aptitude (or synaptic if you think using X for administration makes sense) is the right tool for the job. > Or did I misread that comment? -- Len Sorensen _______________________________________________ lpi-examdev mailing list [email protected] http://list.lpi.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/lpi-examdev
