apt as front-end to up2date
William Hooper
whooperhsd3 at earthlink.net
Fri Nov 19 01:19:16 UTC 2004
Timothy Murphy said:
> William Hooper wrote:
>
>
>>> I think up2date is a yum front end.
>>>
>>
>> No, it's not.
>>
>
> I asked the same question elsewhere;
> apologies if I missed the reply. But Fedora Tracker
> <http://www.fedoratracker.org/>
> explicitly says in the first sentence on its home page:
> ===============================================
> The Fedora Project is a free distribution of the Linux operating system,
> which uses the RPM package management system. RPMs can be downloaded and
> installed using the apt and yum tools or with Red Hat's up2date utility,
> which can serve as a frontend to either.
> ===============================================
>
>
> You are saying, if I understand you correctly,
> that all the above means is that you can access yum repositories with
> up2date.
Correct.
> I must say I find the wording slightly misleading in that case.
I agree. Perhaps you can send a note to the maintainer and have them
clarify it.
--
William Hooper
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