[Yum] YUM

[Timothy Webster]

Use apt 
 
Why bother with yum? Does it really make since to have 2  
repository systems, 2 none interchangable tools. 
 
Make yum read apt configs and repositories. Then yum might  
have a chance of surviving until next year.  
Otherwise everyone is going to follow the standard 
and forget yum. 
 
 
apt/yum needs to have the following debian tools 
aptitude 
apt-listbugs 
apt-listchanges 
 
Every system administrator needs to see the fixed bugs  
and outstanding bugs. 
Same goes for changes to a lessor extent. 
synaptic is just too heavy, that is why redhat needs aptitude badly. 
 
Finialy redhat needs a tool to simplify pinning packages.  
Something equivalent to 
dpkg --get-settings, --set-settings that grabs pinned packages from a 
file withing the apt.conf.d directory.  
Please do this in a separate file, no need to mess up the users 
apt.conf. 
hmm, I think will go and create this as a perl script, but 
what to pin needs to be based on something. 
hmm, a list of bugs would be nice see above apt-listbugs 
 
P.S. I really like the directories for apt.conf.d and source.list.d 
This is a wonderful idea redhat, my hat off to you. 
 
-Tim. 
 
> Hi 
>  
> Can anyone tell me how do i set my repository in the yum.conf file 
> and what are the values to be set in the /etc/yum.conf 
>  
> Please help 
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> Kaushal Shriyan 
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