update package

[addendum]

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

[Muthukumar_5]

refer this:

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

hth.

[addendum]

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

[Gopi Sekar]

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

[addendum]

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

[addendum]

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'