[Apt-Rpm] [Apt-rpm] What is the best choice for RPM Update Tool

[Sven Hoexter]

On Sun, Jan 06, 2008 at 03:37:36PM +0200, Panu Matilainen wrote:
> On Sun, 6 Jan 2008, Quan phongvan wrote:
> 
> > Dear friends,
> > I've just taken part into our community on apt-rpm, and I have a question,
> > hope to get yours help as soon as possible.
> > Now I have try to use all of three RPM Update tools: apt-rpm, yum and
> > smartpm. My target machine is running on CentOS (rpm system), and I want to
> > have some advices from all you about this issue: how about yum vs apt vs
> > smart on to be the best choice for RPM packages management system.
> 
> Sticking with the native tools is usually the best option. Using something 
> else always comes at a price (the tools are not as well integrated or 
> whatever). Is there something specific yum (the CentOS native/default) 
> doesn't do that you need?

Ranting about yum the following comes to mind after a year of RHEL usage:
a) It's awfully slow.
b) The search function sucks more or less but I'm not sure if it's a poor
search inside yum or simply some bad package descriptions.
c) Sometimes I'm missing features like -d or --print-uris.

Beside that it's doing what it's supposed todo.

Sven
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