Yum vs. PackageKit

[Roger]

On 31/12/10 04:57, Beartooth wrote:
> 	On all machines running F14 with a usable GUI, PackageKit's gpk-
> update-viewer (which I run daily, sometimes more) often tells me it sees
> no updates, or only very few.  I've been making it a practice, every time
> it claims that, to run yum update.
>
> 	Very often yum gets a great long list (anywhere from a dozen to
> two or three hundred, the latter in cases of a laptop which hasn't been
> booted for weeks).
>
> 	Comments, please! Am I the only one seeing this??
>
>
I, too see this in Fedora 14 and routinely do yum update and yum upgrade.
With Ubuntu I also do apt-get update  then apt-get upgrade to obtain 
latest files.
It's probably the wrong thing to do but I do not know!
Roger