On Sun, Nov 21, 2004 at 05:05:22PM +0000, Michael A. Peters wrote:
Additionally, since yum was written for rpm rather than ported to
rpm,
it's code base is much smaller.
I call that short sighted :)
While it may not be true anymore, Apt use to do things kind of dirty
-
using its own dependency resolution and telling rpm to ignore its
dependency resolution, thus yum was better integrated with rpm.
Emphasis on *was*. apt-rpm doesn't do that anymore for a long time now.
Also - and you *may* be able to do this with apt, but I don't
think so,
want to install a group of packages you forgot to select at CD install
time?
yum grouplist
That is totally distro-dependent. No need to have the package tool to implement
this separately. Just use meta-packages.
For example: apt-get install task-profile-sambaserver
Where task-profile-sambaserver is a simple rpm package with no files whatsoever
which exists just to pull in the right dependencies.
That will show what is available.
apt-cache search task-profile
yum groupinstall "KDE (K Desktop Environment)"
That will install the KDE Desktop Environment
apt-get install task-kde
yum is really nice - and the current metadata yum has improved in
speed
signifigantly.
I'm sure it is, and believe me when I say I'm not trying to tell you that
apt is better or worse: I'm just showing how the things you said are done
in the apt-rpm world.
BTW, why doesn't yum stop when I hit CTRL-C to abort an update in progress?