I've mentioned it here before, but I'm not a huge fan of the current options for checking out and installing Fedora packages. I notice a lot of people mention just using yum/dnf directly, but I'm wondering what people normally use to just check out new packages.
So how do people on this list normally handle package management?
On Thu, 2015-03-05 at 16:58 -0500, Kelly Miller wrote:
I notice a lot of people mention just using yum/dnf directly, but I'm wondering what people normally use to just check out new packages.
If you mean ones we haven't known about before, I've occasionally searched yum for keywords of things that might interest me hoping to find something to do a job.
If you mean information about newly released packages (e.g. updates), I'm signed up to the package-announce list. Any time an update is released, I get an email about it. If the email doesn't provide anything particularly descriptive about it (as too many don't), then I can look at the packages website, or do a yum info packagename.
Sorry, I meant the former. I used to like going through Smart to see what packages are available, but without the RPM groupings it's harder to do in Yumex (plus Fedora is phasing them out).
On Fri, Mar 6, 2015 at 10:08 AM, Tim ignored_mailbox@yahoo.com.au wrote:
On Thu, 2015-03-05 at 16:58 -0500, Kelly Miller wrote:
I notice a lot of people mention just using yum/dnf directly, but I'm wondering what people normally use to just check out new packages.
If you mean ones we haven't known about before, I've occasionally searched yum for keywords of things that might interest me hoping to find something to do a job.
If you mean information about newly released packages (e.g. updates), I'm signed up to the package-announce list. Any time an update is released, I get an email about it. If the email doesn't provide anything particularly descriptive about it (as too many don't), then I can look at the packages website, or do a yum info packagename.
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On Thu, Mar 5, 2015 at 1:58 PM, Kelly Miller lightsolphoenix@gmail.com wrote:
So how do people on this list normally handle package management?
I use Yumex. It's fast and it works. -- Steven Rosenberg http://stevenrosenberg.net/blog http://blogs.dailynews.com/click
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