Alan McKinnon wrote: > Ah, but YUM is a front-end to rpm and gaining traction.
Huh? I know a lot of people here live in "home consumer" land, but when is the last time you'all looked at CIO, IDC and various business deployment numbers on CentOS and RHEL? You do know YUM has been the standard for such for over 2 years now? And that's not including the great number of Enterprises that have been using YUM for the last 5 years. It is in as widespread use as APT, and that's been the case for years now. > rpm itself is (with good reason) an objective on its own. In enteprises, YUM commands are used 10x more than RPM, just like APT over DPKG. This viewpoint is beyond aged. YUM is to RPM as APT is to DPKG. Not only did YUM start on a different distro than anything Red Hat, but there are few RPM-based distros that have not adopted it. YUM v3 is over 3 years old. Even YUM v2 releases from 5+ years ago had "localinstall" so one should *NEVER* run "rpm -ihv," *PERIOD*. I continue to chalk up un- appreciation for YUM outside of Enterprises due to lack of exposure and total unfamiliarity. YUM also has a plug-in architecture. Long story short, combined with RPM 4.6 and Spacewalk with delta'ing, the days of full package updates are extremely dated. > If we include YUM in the objectives, I suppose we should > include urpmi and YaST as well. If you can prove that URPMI and YaST have over a 30% marketshare in Enterprises and SMBs like YUM, then I'd say yes. But I know the two combined don't even come close. CentOS used YUM even before RHEL did with its RHN plug-in, and many enterprises did the same. Covering APT without covering YUM, and ignorant home consumers relaying the igorance that Red Hat uses RPM in comparison to APT, gets really old. In fact, it's the quickest way to end a job interview in a great majority of enterprises. I still cannot believe people who still telegraph their unfamilarity so quickly. Given sheer marketshare, for your own benefit, please don't proliferate this. If you don't believe, compare the marketshare of YUM-based distros versus APT-based distros, let alone the percentage of RPM-based distros that are YUM-based. ;) -- Bryan J Smith - mailto:[email protected] http://www.linkedin.com/in/bjsmith Sent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile _______________________________________________ lpi-examdev mailing list [email protected] http://list.lpi.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/lpi-examdev
