update vs yum update

[Nifty Hat Mitch]

On Tue, Aug 10, 2004 at 12:18:11PM +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> 
> Does up2date have any advantages over "yum update" ?

There is one difference that I value.  up2date will also download the
source rpm if that option is turned on.  Last I checked yum does not yet
have this option but an enhancement request has been made.

> Incidentally, if one has several machines with slightly different
> setups, is there any simple way to avoid duplication of RPM
> downloads with yum?

Since up2date and yum can fetch packages from a yum repository you can
cross expose your download caches as a yum resources via html or NFS.
You can also use rsync or just scp if you have the disk space.
There have been a number of postings on how to setup a yum repository.
Google should find them for you.



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