Re: up2date vs yum

Glad to know I'm ok.

I copied the first quote from an earlier thread, so as not to hijack the  
thread.
I wanted to know if there is a significant difference between up2date and  
yum, and would I be missing stuff by staying with up2date.



On Thu, 24 Feb 2005 11:45:09 -0800 (PST), Steven J. Yellin  
<[email protected]> wrote:

>     You're probably right.  I thought he was using the base directory for
> his updates because he said
>
>> I have been using up2date with
>> http://mirror.datapipe.net/fedoralegacy/redhat/9/os/i386
>
> But I'll bet he really is using the updates directory, in which case he's
> ok.  This thread started because someone asking about where to get an
> updated version of samba was apparently not doing updates at all, and had
> old versions of glibc and kernel.
>
> Steven Yellin
>
> On Thu, 24 Feb 2005, Michael Schwendt wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 24 Feb 2005 10:47:36 -0800 (PST), Steven J. Yellin wrote:
>>
>> >     The archive you have been using,
>> > http://mirror.datapipe.net/fedoralegacy/redhat/9/os/i386 ,
>> > doesn't seem to have been updated since Feb. 27, 2003.
>>
>> That's because it's the "base" directory of Red Hat Linux 9. The
>> "updates" directory was included near the bottom of his mail, here:
>>
>> > > my /etc/sysconfig/rhn/sources file contains
>> > > yum rh9-base  
>> http://mirror.datapipe.net/fedoralegacy/redhat/9/os/i386
>> > > yum updates  
>> http://mirror.datapipe.net/fedoralegacy/redhat/9/updates/i386
>>
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