Why don't you guys like synaptic?

Kim Lux lux at diesel-research.com
Thu Nov 11 17:08:11 UTC 2004


I did an upgrade path: FC3rc3->FC3Rc5 via yum updates.  Then yum went
quiet.  I then did a upgrade to FC3 final via ISO CDROMs.  Yum is still
pointing at a development repo and I haven't had time to change it.  I
did rpm -e yum and re install it, but it didn't touch the repos. 



On Thu, 2004-11-11 at 12:01 -0500, seth vidal wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-11-11 at 10:00 -0700, Kim Lux wrote:
> > I knew about yum, but I had never used it until my involvement with FC3
> > test.  I liked it.  Joe average doesn't want a textual install/update
> > tool.  Put a synaptic type front end on yum and it too would be a
> > winner. 
> > 
> > Ironically, yum on my machine is now broken <again> because the repos
> > aren't pointing anywhere meaningful. 
> 
> the repos aren't pointing anywhere meaningful? Where did you get the yum
> package? The yum package (in combination with fedora-release) that comes
> with fc3 has working configuration files.
> 
> 
> -sv
> 
> 
-- 
Kim Lux (Mr.)  Diesel Research Inc




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