yum vs rpm.

[Panu Matilainen]

On Thu, 13 Nov 2003, Kevin Francis wrote:

> I am going to assume here, that yum is the tool of choice for Fedora Core.
> 
> If that assumption is correct, we should discourage people from using 
> apt-get/synaptic, seeing as how this is a sure fire way of seeing those 
> `rpm lock-up' complaints.

Oh that's just bollocks.. on RHL 9, if you didn't update rpm to 4.2-1
hitting ctrl-c in mid-flight was a sure way to get rpm to hang, however
that was a bug in rpm, not apt/synaptic. The original rpm from RHL 8.0 has
similar problems (but a different bug), fixed by updating to rpm-4.1.1.
The former didn't trigger in yum, the latter did (IIRC) but that's got
nothing to do with the issue really. rpm-4.2.1 in FC 1 seems to be quite 
ok, haven't had any lockups under normal conditions (rpmlib-related 
development doesn't count as normal conditions :) Kill *any* rpm-related 
installer with kill -9 and you have a lockup, by definition, for that 
matter.

Yum is included in FC1, apt+synaptic only as extras (in fedora.us until 
the real merger occurs) currently but that might change at some point.. 
People have different needs & tastes, yum doesn't do everything apt does 
and vice versa - use the right tool for the job.

	- Panu -