I love apt too, I've used yum in fedora 1, but my experiences were very unsatisfactory. I'm sure yum grew up since, I have to give it a spin one of these days. Currently on Centos I'm using dag's apt http://dag.wieers.com/packages/apt/ and Repo-janitor http://www.bioxray.dk/~mok/repo-janitor.php to manage my local repository. The cool part about repo-janitor that the repository is both yum and apt so I can still use up2date for it. This is my repo-janitor.xml file: <repo-janitor id="Tracbox Apt/Yum repository" topdir="/var/repo-janitor/" > <distribution id="centos-3"> <release id="3.3" arch="i386"> <description>Centos 3.3 release for i386 architecture.</description> <component id="os"> <mirror type="rpm">rsync://mirror.physics.ncsu.edu/caoslinux/centos-3/3.3/os/i386/RedHat/RPMS/</mirror> <mirror type="srpm">rsync://mirror.physics.ncsu.edu/caoslinux/centos-3/3.3/os/SRPMS/</mirror> <description>Main Centos Linux packages</description> </component> <component id="updates"> <mirror type="rpm">rsync://mirror.physics.ncsu.edu/caoslinux/centos-3/3.3/updates/i386/RPMS/</mirror> <mirror type="srpm">rsync://mirror.physics.ncsu.edu/caoslinux/centos-3/3.3/updates/i386/SRPMS/</mirror> <description>Updated and fixed versions of Centos Linux packages</description> </component> <component id="addons"> <mirror type="rpm">rsync://mirror.physics.ncsu.edu/caoslinux/centos-3/3.3/addons/i386/RPMS/</mirror> <mirror type="srpm">rsync://mirror.physics.ncsu.edu/caoslinux/centos-3/3.3/addons/i386/SRPMS/</mirror> <description>Addons for Centos Linux packages</description> </component> <component id="contrib"> <mirror type="rpm">rsync://mirror.physics.ncsu.edu/caoslinux/centos-3/3.3/contrib/i386/RPMS/</mirror> <mirror type="srpm">rsync://mirror.physics.ncsu.edu/caoslinux/centos-3/3.3/contrib/i386/SRPMS/</mirror> <description>Contrib for Centos Linux packages</description> </component> <component id="extras"> <mirror type="rpm">rsync://mirror.physics.ncsu.edu/caoslinux/centos-3/3.3/extras/i386/RPMS/</mirror> <mirror type="srpm">rsync://mirror.physics.ncsu.edu/caoslinux/centos-3/3.3/extras/i386/SRPMS/</mirror> <description>Extras for Centos Linux packages</description> </component> <component id="testing"> <mirror type="rpm">rsync://mirror.physics.ncsu.edu/caoslinux/centos-3/3.3/testing/i386/RPMS/</mirror> <mirror type="srpm">rsync://mirror.physics.ncsu.edu/caoslinux/centos-3/3.3/testing/i386/SRPMS/</mirror> <description>Testing for Centos Linux packages</description> </component> <component id="docs"> <mirror type="rpm">rsync://mirror.physics.ncsu.edu/caoslinux/centos-3/3.3/docs/RPMS/</mirror> <description>Docs for Centos Linux packages</description> </component> <component id="misc"> <description>Misc Local packages</description> </component> </release> </distribution> </repo-janitor> On Tue, 07 Dec 2004 11:55:59 -0800, C.M. Connelly <cmc at math.hmc.edu> wrote: > > Beau, > > Most everything you could need to know is in the man pages for > yum. If you have specific questions not answered by the man > pages, please feel free to ask me for my experiences, Seth (who > wrote the thing so should be able to answer *anything* about it), > or the list. > > I'm actually a Debian developer myself, but we're using CentOS at > work, and I find yum quite comfortable (and a good deal less > complex than apt for setting up and maintaining local > repositories). > > I've recently implemented the use of the yumgroups.xml file to > define groups of packages for installation on different classes of > machines. It works very well (provided you make sure that all the > important files are actually readable!). > > Claire > > -- > *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* > Claire Connelly cmc at math.hmc.edu > Systems Administrator (909) 621-8754 > Department of Mathematics Harvey Mudd College > *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* > > >