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| Newer page: | version 2 | Last edited on Saturday, July 3, 2004 10:17:30 pm | by CraigBox | Revert |
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-Yellowdog Updater
, Modified
+[Acronym] for __Y__ellowDog __U__pdater
, __M__odified.
-Yum is a tool
for keeping your FedoraCore or RedHat installation up
to date
. It comes installed with Fedora Core
.
+[
Yum|http://linux.duke.edu/projects/yum/]
is an "automatic updater and package installer/remover
for [RPM] systems. It automatically computes dependencies and figures out what things should occur
to install packages
. It makes it easier to maintain groups of machines without having to manually update each one using rpm
."
-It is written in python and acts much the same was as
[apt
|AptForRpm
] does.
+; Pros : Small updates (single file headers, only updated when changed), designed especially for RPM systems
+; Cons : Slow updates caused by of lots of small files, useless on
[other distributions
|Debian
]
-All
the main FedoraCore repositories support
[Yum
]:
-* FedoraExtras
(And associated sites
)
-* The BigFive
+It was written for YellowDog Linux for
the [PowerPC
], but it has taken on a following since being adapted for RedHat and adopted as the official package distribution system for FedoraCore
(replacing the RedHat Network.
)
-http://linux
.duke
.edu/projects/yum/
+Compare with [APT|AptForRpm]
.
+
+All the main FedoraRepositories support Yum; RedHat staff and other distributors who want to easily make packages available tend to use it instead of apt
.
