Then do check out yum : It has the ease of use that autoupdate has,
trivial
package signature checking like autoupdate has, but uses rpmlib and the
actual package headers to calculate updates, so it doesn't miss the
"Obsoletes:" tags nor the epoch increases... like autoupdate does.
I'm still using autoupdate on quite a lot of production servers, but am
switching to yum on the new ones.
What's the homepage of yum?
Does it handle all *file* dependencies in rpm correctly? Some versions
of Current had problems with this and apt-rpm does handle this correctly
(foe *all* files) when using the --bloat flag to the genXXXXdir tools
(without this flag it does some hueristics that only handle most cases,
but not all).
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