On 10/23/2003 09:07 PM, Kirk Lowery wrote:
What is the community's experience with these three methods? Is there a clearly preferred method?
I use all 3 interchangably. They each have their strengths and limitations. Apt's strength is its ability to update all rpms in the database, with very good dependency checking. Its weakness is that it can do much damage with one poorly understood choice, and it needs a manual run of ldconfig and SuSEconfig. It has gotten better, and is great at keeping your whole system as up to date as there are packages available. It is really not just an update tool, but more of a packaging tool. Fou4s' strength is it is fast, and it outputs which processes need restarting after an update, and it runs SuSEconfig. I (to be sure) also manually run ldconfig after using it. It is a great command line update tool, but even though I know it can do more, that is how I have used it, and it works great. YOU is also very good. It runs ldconfig and Suseconfig, can update those packages that can be updated, and works very well. It's weaknesses are it is slower, and can be finnicky at times. The greatest thing about the whole thing is you can use 1, 2, or all 3 interchangeably, as they are tools that work with the same rpm database. I can't imagine a better situation. You can use whichever you like. I realize these are just my ramblings based on my experiences with all 3, so YMMV. I use them for what they do well, and am pleased with them all. -- Joe Morris New Tribes Mission Email Address: Joe_Morris@ntm.org Web Address: http://www.mydestiny.net/~joe_morris Registered Linux user 231871 God said, I AM that I AM. I say, by the grace of God, I am what I am.