What's up with apt (and in praise of yum)

[Thomas Carlson]

Thanks to Charles and Harvey for setting me straight on yum.  I have=20
pointed it to a mirror and everything works fine now.

I still don't know why yum is such an improvement over apt, however,=20
especially when the connection shuts down and one has to start all over=20=

again.  Apt just picked up where it left off, whereas yum doesn't seem=20=

to like a partially downloaded package hanging around.  I also liked=20
the way that apt gave me more information about the progress of=20
downloads.

But, hey, that's the way progress is in the wonderful world of Linux.

Thanks again,

Tom

On Dec 7, 2003, at 9:57 AM, Charles Trois wrote:

> le 6/12/03 20:01,=20
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>> Message: 11
>> To: Yellow Dog-General=20
>> <yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com>
>> From: Thomas Carlson <tcarls@earthlink.net>
>> Subject: What's up with apt
>> Date: Sat, 6 Dec 2003 09:52:40 -0700
>> Reply-To: yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
>>
>> Is apt now totally defunct in YDL 3.0?  As of this week it doesn't=20
>> seem
>> to be able to access updates.  With yum terminally afflicted with
>> "Errno104, Connection Reset by Peer", what is the best way to update =
a
>> new installation now?
>
> Thomas,
>
> It is not true that yum is "terminally afflicted with Errno104". That=20=

> just
> means that the server is overworked, and all you have to do is to=20
> replace it
> by a mirror.
>
> You will find the list of mirrors on the YellowDog site; choose the=20
> one that
> you like best and edit /etc/yum.conf accordingly, like this (in my=20
> case, the
> mirror chosen is the one in Switzerland):
>
> [main]
> cachedir=3D/var/cache/yum
> debuglevel=3D2
> logfile=3D/var/log/yum.log
> pkgpolicy=3Dnewest
>
> [base]
> name=3DYellow Dog Linux 3.0 base
> #baseurl=3Dhttp://ftp.yellowdoglinux.com/pub/yellowdog/yum/3.0/base/
> baseurl=3Dftp://sunsite.cnlab-switch.ch/mirror/yellowdog/yum/3.0/base/
>
> [updates]
> name=3DYellow Dog Linux 3.0 update
> #baseurl=3Dhttp://ftp.yellowdoglinux.com/pub/yellowdog/yum/3.0/update/
> baseurl=3Dftp://sunsite.cnlab-switch.ch/mirror/yellowdog/yum/3.0/update/=

>
> When this is done, yum works perfectly.
>
> Charles
>
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