[ale] Cool!!

[tfreeman at intel.digichem.net]

On 28 Oct 2003, Ray Knight wrote:

> On Mon, 2003-10-27 at 18:03, Jim Philips wrote:
> > 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 out of date and need to be replaced with older versions.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?
> > 
> For the package manager to read the version you need to install the
> software using the package package manager.  So get the source package,
> modify it for the new version and source then build and install.  
> 
> You can't really expect a package manager to know what version you have
> installed if you install a newer version from source bypassing the
> package manager.
> 
> 

Which would be all well and good, but checkinstall uses  RPM to perform 
the install (or at least my copy of it does) There is a disconnect 
somewhere in the chain apparently.

Of course, I could easily be wrong, YMMV, and so forth.


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