[ale] Cool!!

[Jim Philips]

On Monday 27 October 2003 08:28 am, James P. Kinney III wrote:
> On Mon, 2003-10-27 at 01:57, Kevin Krumwiede wrote:
> > On 26 Oct 2003 15:36:06 -0500
> >
> > "James P. Kinney III" <jkinney at localnetsolutions.com> wrote:
> > > As has been announced here before, the package updater called yum is
> > > seriously fantastic!!
> >
> > Mind giving us a brief overview of what's so great about it?
>
> Sure. It is configurable to point to any yum archives you want. So I can
> download for one machine and point my others at it inside my network. It
> has much of the upgrade flexibility as apt-get does while working with
> standard RedHat upgrades as well as third-party upgrades. It is command
> line only (only for the moment, I'm sure) so it is easily stuck in a
> cron task or run remotely through an ssh shell.

So far my main complaint against it is one that I have with other updaters: I 
have packages I compiled from source and Yum insists that these packages are 
out of date and need to be replaced with older versions. The packages were 
made with checkinstall and so far, all of these update programs don't know 
how to deal with that. Can't they just read the version?