CentOS vs Ubuntu was Re: Easy to use/install (was Re: [Novalug] Community contribution)

[John Franklin]

Yum comes with RHEL5, so I imagine it comes with CentOS 5, too.  There  
are Dag packages for RHEL4 and earlier.

Yum+RPM are closer to, but not quite yet apt+dpkg.  There's no such  
thing as rpm --reconfigure, there's no yum install -f.  On the other  
hand, yum does updates as yum update, instead of "apt-get update &&  
apt get upgrade."  For probably 90% of what you use apt for, yum works  
fine.

I prefer apt, but I'll happily use either.

jf

On Jan 25, 2008, at 7:43 AM, greg pryzby wrote:

> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
> Hash: SHA1
>
> The question I would have is does yum come with and is it part of the
> distro or is it a 3rd party addon?
>
> Not much of a difference, but a difference to me.
>
> also, if it is the same, welcome to the game, just 10 years late ;)
>
>
> maxpublic08 at maxwellspangler.com wrote:
>> */- Thu, 24 Jan 2008, greg pryzby wrote:
>>
>>> Ubuntu is based on debian. It is a deb system so the entire  
>>> packaging
>>> system is different and I think for those who have used RPM and deb,
>>> most prefer the ease of deb. For instance, deb knows what packages  
>>> it
>>> needs and the installer can proactively get the packages instead of
>>> telling you you need file X which is what RPM does (or at least  
>>> did).
>>
>> On my Fedora 8 system, it uses rpm as a package system, but I use the
>> 'yum' tool to download and install packages from the command line and
>> pirut as a graphical package manager.
>>
>> # yum -y install amarok
>>
>> downloads amarok, any dependencies and installs all of them from any
>> repositories I've got setup.  This sounds an awful lot like
>>
>> # apt-get amarok
>>
>> which I believe has done the same on debian systems for years.
>>
>> This leaves me wondering if rpm+yum has caught up to debian in ease  
>> of
>> use and wondering what the real difference between an rpm system  
>> and a
>> debian system are these days..
>
> - --
> greg pryzby                              greg at pryzby dot org
> fingerprint: 8A1A DB90 869F 5DD1 D6E9 EEB6 C156 6B04 849F A86F
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
> Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux)
> Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org
>
> iD8DBQFHmdlqwVZrBISfqG8RApo6AJoD/RVQNECKOtE5g+qzDSRIvYfqaQCfS/9/
> LvjnRZIrRgFTwhmjn5EJp0M=
> =2mXg
> -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
> _______________________________________________
> Novalug mailing list
> Novalug at calypso.tux.org
> http://calypso.tux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/novalug