[NTLUG:Discuss] Re: RPM craziness -- YUM version, Fedora Extras YUM and APT packages ...

[Bryan J. Smith]

On Sat, 2004-10-23 at 08:50, Terry Henderson wrote:
> So we should change /etc/yum.conf lines:
> =====================================
> [base]
> name=Red Hat Linux $releasever - $basearch - Base
> baseurl=http://mirror.dulug.duke.edu/pub/yum-repository/redhat/$releasever/$base
> arch/
> [updates]
> name=Red Hat Linux $releasever - Updates
> baseurl=http://mirror.dulug.duke.edu/pub/yum-repository/redhat/updates/$releasev
> er/
> =============================================
> To?:

Well, I was kinda interested in where you got your YUM from.
What do you get with:  
  rpm -qa |grep -i yum

Here is the official Fedora Extras (Fedora.US, fka The Fedora Project
for Red Hat Linux 8 and 9 before the Red Hat merge) YUM package:   
http://download.fedora.us/fedora/redhat/9/i386/RPMS.stable/yum-2.0.3-0.fdr.1.rh90.noarch.rpm

BTW, those look like mirrors of the Red Hat YUM repository, but I don't
use YUM enough to be totally familiar -- let alone I've moved _all_
CL3.1 (Red Hat Linux 9) systems to CL3.2 (Fedora Core 1) as it is the
latest and most reliable in the CL3/EL3 series.  Plus Red Hat could end
legacy updates for it any day now -- leaving only 2 legacy trees, CL2.3
(Red Hat Linux 7.3) and CL3.2 (Fedora Core 1).

It also can't hurt to install APT.  Here is the official Fedora Extras
package:  
http://download.fedora.us/fedora/redhat/9/i386/RPMS.stable/apt-0.5.5cnc6-0.fdr.8.rh90.i386.rpm

You can use _both_ APT and YUM as you wish, since they still use RPM as
their back-end.  I don't know about the Fedora Extras YUM package, but
the APT version lets you select mirrors and handles grabbing not only
the Red Hat updates through 2004Apr30, but the Legacy updates since, as
well as Fedora Extras packages and, again, select 3rd parties (e.g.,
Macromedia Flash).

I'm really not fond of YUM yet, at least in comparison to Fedora Extra's
APT.  I've trusted it for the last 18 months -- far better than any
other APT implementation I've used (e.g., always had issues with
FreshRPMS' as well as others), hence why I believe Red Hat's choice to
go with the U of Hawaii's Fedora Project over any other was a no
brainer.


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Bryan J. Smith                                  b.j.smith at ieee.org 
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