which repos to use?

Robin Laing Robin.Laing at drdc-rddc.gc.ca
Tue Sep 14 17:30:45 UTC 2004


Paul Howarth wrote:
> Robin Laing wrote:
> 
>> For managing my packages I have tried this package manager.  I find it 
>> great.
>>
>> Cobind Software Manager (YUMGUI)
>> http://www.cobind.com/yumgui.html
>>
>> There are a few problems but it makes it quite easy to find out what 
>> packages are on your machine and what packages are available.  It will 
>> list updates, installed packages and available packages.  You can 
>> check which to add, remove or update.
> 
> 
> Thomas Chung at fedoranews.org has forked this package and called it 
> gyum (see http://fedoranews.org/tchung/gyum/), where FC1 & FC2 RPMs can 
> be found. He's also forked rhn-applet to create yum-applet (see 
> http://fedoranews.org/tchung/yum-applet/), so you can see in your 
> Gnome/KDE panel that you're up to date with all updates; this applet 
> allows you to call up gyum if you right-click on its icon in the 
> notification area.
> 
> Paul.
> 
> 
Thanks for the info.

It is still a nice package. :)

-- 
Robin Laing





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