Posted by: Charles Tryon
on July 15, 2005 02:45 AM
I'll add my agreement here too.
Funny you should mention YUM. I've used up2date pretty consistently in the past, and aside from its constant hanging up when in GUI mode, I could usually get it to work. Beastly slow, but generally effective -- until I tried to run it from behind a firewall. BIZZZT. No dice. No matter what I did, I couldn't get it to work. It would download the updates that were available, but couldn't actually get to the files. I actually got to the point of mirroring the updates site on my home box and burning them to CD so I could hand carry them in to work.
Uh, then I tried YUM. Good Lord! Why did it take me so long to figure out that you can just do "sudo yum update", and it'd work every time?? I can use it to install new packages too, which I never figured out how to do with up2date. Much faster too.
Now, I'd like to find a nice GUI to use with YUM, but until I find one, the CLI works just fine.
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Re:Oh no...not again.
Posted by: Charles Tryon on July 15, 2005 02:45 AMFunny you should mention YUM. I've used up2date pretty consistently in the past, and aside from its constant hanging up when in GUI mode, I could usually get it to work. Beastly slow, but generally effective -- until I tried to run it from behind a firewall. BIZZZT. No dice. No matter what I did, I couldn't get it to work. It would download the updates that were available, but couldn't actually get to the files. I actually got to the point of mirroring the updates site on my home box and burning them to CD so I could hand carry them in to work.
Uh, then I tried YUM. Good Lord! Why did it take me so long to figure out that you can just do "sudo yum update", and it'd work every time?? I can use it to install new packages too, which I never figured out how to do with up2date. Much faster too.
Now, I'd like to find a nice GUI to use with YUM, but until I find one, the CLI works just fine.
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