Re: 1st Draft: Package Management with RPM Update
Hi Rahul,
On 09/21/2009 10:59 PM, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
On 09/17/2009 06:10 AM, Douglas Silas wrote:
> The first draft of the Package Management with RPM chapter is complete
> and ready to be reviewed here:
>
> http://dsilas.fedorapeople.org/Deployment_Guide/en-US/html-single/#ch-rpm
>
> All comments/notes/suggestions welcome!
Some of the material is certainly very out of date.
"up2date is now deprecated in favor of yum (Yellowdog Updater Modified).
The entire stack of tools which installs and updates software in Fedora
12 is now based on yum. This includes everything, from the initial
installation via Anaconda to host software management tools like pirut."
Pirut doesn't exist in Fedora for a long time. PackageKit and it
graphical frontends have replaced it. You should probably introduce yum
first, encourage the use of it and note that RPM is a low level utility
so that users don't have to deal with dependencies themselves.
I had been thinking a long time of shifting the chapter order as
well, and now I've done just that. The order of chapters is now: Yum
-> PackageKit -> RPM. These could still be swapped around based on
feedback, but I currently agree with you.
Rahul
If you have the chance to look over the much-modified Part I, I'd
love to hear it. Aside from a few small things, it's completely
updated (with a completely new chapter on PackageKit):
http://dsilas.fedorapeople.org/Deployment_Guide/en-US/html-single/index.h...
Cheers,
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