OT: Apt-get vs YUM?

[Karl Larsen]

Kevin Kofler wrote:
> Matej Cepl <mcepl <at> redhat.com> writes:
>   
>> Don't want to fight on any side of this perenial religious war, 
>> but just to note that package-cleanup --problems (package-cleanup 
>> is in yum-utils package) works pretty well for the first issue.  
>>     

I got the yum-utils package and tried yum package-cleanup --problems 
does not work. Do not know why not.

Karl

>
> That's the equivalent of apt-get check (i.e. only fixes existing breakage). It 
> won't help when yum is erroring on the update because the update would break a 
> dependency, apt-get dist-upgrade will actually offer to remove the broken 
> package to allow the upgrade to proceed in such cases. Also note that apt-get 
> check will actually offer to _fix_ the breakage, not just list it.
>
> Note that apt won't actually let you do anything other than fixing the breakage 
> on a system with broken dependencies, it's built on the invariant that no 
> dependency should ever be broken. Fixing will first try to install missing 
> packages and/or upgrade the broken packages to newer versions if that fixes the 
> breakage, and if it doesn't, it will remove the broken packages.
>
> All your solutions (also the --exclude one) involve lots of manual work whereas 
> apt will try to figure out a solution automatically.
>
>         Kevin Kofler
>
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