The Great Package Management Experiment

The Great Package Management Experiment

Posted Nov 28, 2003 20:27 UTC (Fri) by niemeyer (guest, #17169)
Parent article: The Great Package Management Experiment

''Although yum is now in rawhide, I don't expect to see it in a released version of RHL or RHEL. Why do I say this? Because the newest up2date that will ship with the upcoming RHEL and RHL now supports remote "yum" and "apt" repositories in addition to the native "rhn-style" repositories. Since up2date now speaks all languages (rhn, apt, yum) there is no need to ship those other tools.''

That's a very strange thing to say. Doing so you assume that the quality of the upgrade software is in the meta-information stored in the repository, while that's mostly the same thing for every tool. What makes a good tool is not the information it uses, but what it does with this information.

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