[CentOS] Re: Clarification
Sam Drinkard
sam at wa4phy.netFri Oct 7 17:08:12 UTC 2005
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Thanks for the clarification Greg. I kind of figured they both would work about the same, but didnt' know if there was a preference for one over the other or not. Just seems like up2date is the simpler of the two with a few clicks of the rodent and its done. Greg Knaddison wrote: >Snowman, > >up2date and yum both work on top of or maybe "in cooperation with" the >rpm package management system. So, if you like using one or the other >to do your updating at a given time you can use either one and they >won't get confused since they both store/read information from the >rpmDB. > >Yum uses metadata about a repository to know what is going on, what >updates might exist, etc. You can use "yum list updates" to see what >needs to be updated. Some people put a "yum list updates" and then >redirect it to mail to them in their daily cron so that they know if >they have updates rather than using the up2date applet. > >When you start yum it goes to the repositories in your configuration >files, pulls down the metadata from those repositories and then parses >through it looking for updates, packages to satisfy dependencies if >there are updates, and other fun stuff like that. > >None of the files for CentOS (unless you changed something) from from >anything RH related. I assume you know how that all works and said >"RH" where you meant "CentOS"... > >Regards, >Greg > > > > > > > > > -- Snowman
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