[ale] rpm.pbone.net

Brian Pitts brian at polibyte.com
Wed Feb 17 21:42:44 EST 2010


On 02/17/2010 09:28 PM, Brian Pitts wrote:
> RHEL provides (and hence supports) a relatively small number of packages.
> 
> # lsb_release -d && yum list all | wc -l
> Description:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5.4 (Tikanga)
> 6476
> 
> Fedora provides a lot more.
> 
> $ lsb_release -d && yum list all | wc -l
> Description:	Fedora release 12 (Constantine)
> 27151

As soon as I sent this, I realized both of these systems had extra
repositories enabled. D'oh. The RHEL number should be in the mid 3000s.
I don't know about Fedora.

-- 
All the best,
Brian Pitts


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