Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2008 mails)

["Hans-Peter Jansen" <hpj@xxxxxxxxx>]

Am Samstag, 25. April 2009 schrieb Rajko M.:
> On Saturday 25 April 2009 11:07:29 am peby@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > I would still like to resolve the issue with yum and the python < 2.4
> > issue though - why not. Do you have any idea about that?
>
> I'm not sure about yum details, and I would be cautious.
>
> I'm not sure how compatible is yum that you are trying to install with
> zypper. You don't want 2 package management systems that store metadata
> in different places, ie. have no idea what the other one installed. It is
> recipe for problems.

Well, I haven't tested yum lately, but your claim doesn't hold true, because 
zypper, smart and yum are all frontends to rpm... 

The repo management "upwards" differ, the backend remains the same.

BTW, yum has a record and is designed for minimum risk package mgmt, for 
this reason, there're no --force nor --nodeps options. OTOH, I even 
bootstrapped some SuSE installations (for diskless clients) with it, a 
custom script, and the rpms.. 

Pete


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