[Yum] Yum munging systems?

[Karsten Jeppesen]

seth vidal wrote:

>On Thu, 2005-05-26 at 15:21 -0700, Karsten Jeppesen wrote:
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>>seth vidal wrote: 
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>>>On Thu, 2005-05-26 at 15:05 -0700, Karsten Jeppesen wrote:
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>>>>I lately read that on FC3 systems apt is the recommended depsolver and 
>>>>that yum is known to munge FC3 systems.
>>>>Personally I haven't had any such problems, but I would like to know if 
>>>>anybody here knows something about that issue.
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>>>read where?
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>>>There's no evidence in bugzilla that has happened and I get all yum bugs
>>>from yum bugzilla and rh bugzilla.
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>>Sorry Seth,
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>>Given the circumstances I respectfully decline to say who and where.
>>And I am not trying to be a pain in the butt.
>>I don't intent a shouting match - I am just looking for if there is
>>anything to it.
>>As I said - I don't believe so. I personally (and you should know
>>that) dumped apt for yum some years ago which caused YellowDog to do
>>the same. They apparently were of the same opinion. That yum works
>>better.
>>But that doesn't stop me from listening and asking when I see such
>>statements.
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>I'm trying to listen. But I've not gotten any bug reports and this is
>the first I've heard of it.
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>so if you can't tell me what the bug looks like and you can't tell me
>who knows about the bug what am I supposed to say? :)
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Makes two of us - I don't have any further information.
My reply on the statement was just that I have a few thousand machines 
out there and no problems. Most of them are PPC though, but given the 
way yum is coded that doesn't really make a difference.
But if I get any info then I will certainly pass it on.

Karsten
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