On Thu, 2003-10-23 at 15:07, Kirk Lowery wrote:

GarUlbricht7@netscape.net wrote:

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Kastus wrote:

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I know of only 3 tools for automatic update in SuSE: YOU, apt, fou4s

What is the community's experience with these three methods? Is there a clearly preferred method? I am not "the community", but this is my experience:

* SuSE wants you to use YOU. It is sufficient for users who want to "run a plain SuSE system". In general, it is pretty unflexible and not really useful for "power users" (Eg. to update from 3rd party sources or locally built packages). SuSE proprietary, isolated solution, doesn't not interact well with other update-tools. * Apt-rpm is a port of Debian's update system to RPM. Basically it's pretty flexible and applicable to advanced usages, but it's still somewhat immature when looking into details. Not easy to get started with. Reveals all kind of packaging bugs vendors commit. Widely used across distributions. Doesn't interact well with SuSEConfig. * No personal experience with fou4s. * Finally, there is yum. I don't know of a port to SuSE, yet, but as SuSE-9.0 has started to use rpm-4, it should be possible to port it to SuSE. Similar functionality to YOU or RH's up2date, easy to use, not as flexible as apt-rpm, officially adopted by RH/Fedora. A nice tool to administer a local network with a "customized local distribution". IMHO, it depends on you personal demands. If you use "SuSE-only" packages, or are a beginner, YOU is the tool of your choice. If you use many Non-SuSE (third party or local packages), or are a power-user, apt-rpm or yum probably are preferable. The most flexible and most complex one of these definitely is apt-rpm. In all cases, switching between these tools means asking for trouble, relying on one of these only is a good idea. Ralf