topic Re: update package in Operating System - Linux

update package

addendum — Wed, 05 Oct 2005 22:52:44 GMT

if not apply up2date for RHEL server , can use yum to update the server , are they doing the same thing ? if not , what is their different ? thx

Re: update package

Muthukumar_5 — Thu, 06 Oct 2005 00:16:25 GMT

refer this:

http://linux.dell.com/libsmbios/main/yum.html

hth.

Re: update package

addendum — Thu, 06 Oct 2005 01:01:04 GMT

thx reply ,

It seems work in RHEL server ( I still not yet use it ) , is Yum only update some library only ? I know run "up2date
will update all latest packages, can Yum also have the same function of it ? thx

Re: update package

Gopi Sekar — Thu, 06 Oct 2005 01:30:31 GMT

yum can virtually do all of what up2date can do. Infact Fedora Core which is clone of RedHat desktop version uses yum as its update manager. Optionally you can also use up2date on these boxes for updating your packages.

Hope this helps,
Gopi

Re: update package

addendum — Thu, 06 Oct 2005 03:10:08 GMT

thx reply ,

I didn't pay the money to get the permission to use up2date , so ask whether yum can do it , but what is your mean "virtually" ? is that mean only part of function of up2date ? thx

Re: update package

addendum — Thu, 06 Oct 2005 06:14:51 GMT

thx Muth ,

I use the method (yum libsmbios_testing http://linux.dell.com/yum/testing/rhel3/
)to test it ,but pop the messages ,could suggest what is wrong ? thx

yum libsmbios_testing http://linux.dell.com/yum/t
esting/rhel3/

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/yum", line 22, in ?
import yummain
File "/usr/share/yum/yummain.py", line 22, in ?
import clientStuff
File "/usr/share/yum/clientStuff.py", line 25, in ?
import pkgaction
File "/usr/share/yum/pkgaction.py", line 25, in ?
import rpmUtils
File "/usr/share/yum/rpmUtils.py", line 10, in ?
from urlgrabber import URLGrabError
File "/usr/share/yum/urlgrabber.py", line 21, in ?
import urllib2
File "/usr/lib/python2.2/urllib2.py", line 101, in ?
import ftplib
File "/usr/lib/python2.2/ftplib.py", line 68, in ?
all_errors = (Error, socket.error, IOError, EOFError)
AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'error'