I thought so, but it wasn't very clear. yum is not a packaging system, it is a front end to a packaging system (rpm) [1]. It will work on a number of different distros.
You need to ask each distro why it does not package a particular program, or version thereof. http://linux.duke.edu/projects/yum/ "Yum is an automatic updater and package installer/remover for rpm systems. It automatically computes dependencies and figures out what things should occur to install packages. It makes it easier to maintain groups of machines without having to manually update each one using rpm." On Sun, 22 May 2005 22:07:49 -0400 Mark Shields wrote: > He's asking exactly that: why is a package in portage that's isn't > allowed in yum, while both programs are 'repositories' of sorts. > > I can't give you a factual answer, but I can give you a guess: it's > possible yum has different guidelines on including files, such as the > sun-jdk you pointed out. Licensing restrictions, maybe? But no, that > wouldn't make sense. Or would it? > > On 5/22/05, Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > what are you asking? > > > > On Mon, 23 May 2005 02:12:43 +0100 > > THUFIR HAWAT wrote: > > > > > what is about portage which allows > > > <http://packagestest.gentoo.org/ebuilds/?sun-jdk-1.5.0.03>, which > > > don't exist in yum? > > > > > > > > > thanks, > > > > > > Thufir > > > > > > -- > > > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > > > > -- > > Nick Rout > > > > -- > > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > > > > > > > -- > - Mark Shields > > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- Nick Rout -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
