yum - lack of features

[Jean Francois Martinez]

Smartpm not apt-get is the way to go: it supports many more repository 
formats than apt-get, it  can download in parallel, it allows to put 
differnt weighting on repositories (so for instance you avoid using 
packages from a guy whose work is not stellar and it is MUCH smarter at 
solving dependencies.

Chris Tepaske wrote:

>Why don't you use apt-get for Fedora look at http://www.freshrpms.net/
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>Cheers
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>Chris Tepaske
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: John Summerfied [mailto:debian at herakles.homelinux.org] 
>Sent: Wednesday, 29 June 2005 5:53 PM
>To: For users of Fedora Core releases
>Subject: Re: yum - lack of features
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>Scott Talbot wrote:
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>>>i agree with you paul. mmm, yum is still slow :(
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>>   If you really want to see how fast yum is, Download the packages you 
>>want, install them with rpm -Uvh, go find the dependencies, install with 
>>rpm -Uvh *, download more dependencies..... Boy, yum is great! :-)
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>I maintain several machines remotely: several debian. one FC3.
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>Debian, of course, uses apt-get, and apt get supports download-only. So 
>I run a nightly cronjob to download needed updates.
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>Yum only supports download-and-install. I have the clear impression that 
>yum is slower than apt-get even without having to wait for downloads to 
>occur, but as it stands and without making allowances, yum is way slower.
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>And worse, more of FC's packages get updates than Debian's, and I don't 
>think it's entirely because I happen to have more installed on FC3 than 
>on any of the Debian systems.
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