On Tue, 2003-09-23 at 09:47, Vince Hoang wrote:
> > To be honest, I found Warren's response to be fairly arrogant.
> > "These are easily found with Google. Please do not ask me to
> > point the way." Maybe I'm just reading it wrong, but I really
> > just didn't apreciate the attitude.
>
> Wrong de
> > I have been trying to get the apt/yum/synaptic stuff I
> > installed from fedora to work with freshrpms, but to no avail.
> > I don't know what the incompatibility is, or if it's just
> > something I'm being stupid about.
>
> You may have foo'd the freshrpm target in your sources.list
I don't
> To be honest, I found Warren's response to be fairly arrogant.
Yeah, that's Warren. He knows his stuff, but can sometimes be annoying.
I try to just ignore it. It would be nice if someone could knock some
sense into him, but so far I'd say they just end up in a flame war with
him & he stays the
On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 09:06:46AM -1000, Charles Lockhart wrote:
> I looked at the fedora mirror list already, but it seems to
> me that's a list of mirrors for fedora, which doesn't have
> the packages I was looking for. Of course, I could be very
> wrong, but the ones I checked certainly seemed
Hi Vince,
Probably it's me missing the big picture, or maybe a bunch of smaller
pictures, but:
Warren said that these other packages I was interested were available
via apt/yum from 3rd party servers. I guess that meant to me that they
aren't available from fedora or redhat, but were availabl
On Tue, 2003-09-23 at 07:55, Charles Lockhart wrote:
> Warren Togami wrote:
> > apt and yum are generic tools which can download, install and update
> > packages from an arbitrary source. fedora.us was one of many sources of
> > 3rd party packages for Red Hat Linux. freshrpms.net is another.
>
>
On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 07:55:10AM -1000, Charles Lockhart wrote:
> >>In response to a problem I was having with version issues
> >>between RH 7.3 and RH 9 ( that RH 9 has some functionality
> >>"dumbed down" to remove liability for distributing software
> >>that uses things like mpeg, etc ), Warre
Warren Togami wrote:
apt and yum are generic tools which can download, install and update
packages from an arbitrary source. fedora.us was one of many sources of
3rd party packages for Red Hat Linux. freshrpms.net is another.
Ah, I see, that makes sense. I need to get out more.
That is not
On Mon, 2003-09-22 at 14:35, Charles Lockhart wrote:
> I've been trying to understand fedora, but am still confused about a few
> things.
>
> The Fedora Project generates package management (install, update) tools,
> such as apt and yum?
apt and yum are generic tools which can download, install
I've been trying to understand fedora, but am still confused about a few
things.
The Fedora Project generates package management (install, update) tools,
such as apt and yum?
How are apt and yum different? yum seems to primarily for checking on
updates for the currently installed packages,
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