Re: apt, yum, up2date, smartpm, ... ?

Neil Bird wrote:
> 
>    So I've just upgraded to FC4.  I've been using apt for quite a while now,
> never making the jump to yum because (a) it used never to be able to fetch
> sources and (b) it's search output is too verbose, plus I'm worried about
> network traffic for each search (I may well be wrong, but it looks like it
> always runs off to the repos for each search unlike apt).
> 
>    But I know that yum is getting more attention now, can fetch source (I
> believe), and apt has 'issues' [although it coped admirably with a major cock
> up of mine last week when I accidentally apt-got half of FC4 over my FC3 box
> before doing a formal upgrade, then got stuffed after the upgrade due to piles
> of conflicting packages].
> 
>    So what to do?  Carry on using apt?  Is yum really resilient?  What about
> smartpm?
> 
>    And is there actually now a magical rpmforge site with all of my desired
> RPMs in one place, or should I still go for the separate FR/DAG/Dries/etc.
> sites?  In fact, having just read the latest posts, should I drop DAG's site now?


Ditto.  I have the same questions and concerns
Neil has.  I also have one additional question. 
Where can I get smartpm for an FC4 system? 

Regards,
Frank Kamp