Use apt-get to upgrade (was "RE: YDL 2.3")

John Nelson yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
Wed Jun 26 17:26:00 2002


I think there's a strong motivation and implication that you should go 
to apt-get ASAP.

-- John


Dan Burcaw wrote:
> On Wed, 2002-06-26 at 16:09, Pete Peters wrote:
> 
>>Does this mean YUP is obsolete and I can delete my YUP email folder? <g>
> 
> 
> yup still ships with 2.3... but even though it works for us, people
> seem to have nothing but problems.  Plus, it isn't really designed with
> release upgrades in mind. So, hence the move to apt.  At least point,
> I'd say there are no guarentees that yup will ship with future YDL
> releases.  
> 
> There is an interesting project called YUM... which is a new updater
> derived from yup.  It is much more intelligent, and supports multiple
> repositories like apt-get.  http://www.dulug.duke.edu/yum/ for info.
> 
> -Dan
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