My 2 cents worth. I used RPM for a long time, went to Gentoo about three
years ago. This year I had to start using FC2 and FC3. I've been trying
to use apt-get and looked at yum. Both of those made me appreciate how
good portage is and how many packages we have available. Frankly both
apt-get and yum are essentially useless <G>. I found apt-get doesn't do
much with source except download it and then you have to do everything
yourself. In addition it seemed like the packages apt-get could find were
limited - it's as if the repostiories aren't that great - and I had some
of the major ones listed. But whenever I wanted to get a package they
didn't have it!
I used to write RPM spec files and put the packages together and believe
me Portage ebuilds are so nice!
On Mon, 23 May 2005, Nick Rout wrote:
I thought so, but it wasn't very clear. yum is not a packaging system,
it is a front end to a packaging system (rpm) [1]. It will work on a
number of different distros.
You need to ask each distro why it does not package a particular
program, or version thereof.
http://linux.duke.edu/projects/yum/
"Yum is an automatic updater and package installer/remover for rpm
systems. It automatically computes dependencies and figures out what
things should occur to install packages. It makes it easier to maintain
groups of machines without having to manually update each one using
rpm."
On Sun, 22 May 2005 22:07:49 -0400 Mark Shields wrote:
He's asking exactly that: why is a package in portage that's isn't
allowed in yum, while both programs are 'repositories' of sorts.
I can't give you a factual answer, but I can give you a guess: it's
possible yum has different guidelines on including files, such as the
sun-jdk you pointed out. Licensing restrictions, maybe? But no, that
wouldn't make sense. Or would it?
On 5/22/05, Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
what are you asking?
On Mon, 23 May 2005 02:12:43 +0100
THUFIR HAWAT wrote:
what is about portage which allows
<http://packagestest.gentoo.org/ebuilds/?sun-jdk-1.5.0.03>, which
don't exist in yum?
thanks,
Thufir
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