Re: yum vs. rpm to install occasional products

2011-01-31 Thread genomega
-Original Message- >From: Jerry Feldman >Sent: Jan 31, 2011 11:06 AM >To: users@lists.fedoraproject.org >Subject: Re: yum vs. rpm to install occasional products > >On 01/30/2011 01:36 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: >> On 01/30/2011 07:37 AM, Jerry Feldman wrote: >&

Re: yum vs. rpm to install occasional products

2011-01-31 Thread Jerry Feldman
On 01/30/2011 01:52 PM, Ian Pilcher wrote: > > Have you dealt with Oracle support? > Don't need to for 2 reasons. The first is that my initial issue was most probably a cockpit error, and the second is I know several Oracle employees, a couple of whom were students in my class when I taught at Nort

Re: yum vs. rpm to install occasional products

2011-01-31 Thread Jerry Feldman
On 01/30/2011 01:36 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 01/30/2011 07:37 AM, Jerry Feldman wrote: >> The question was just for answering the criticism from my coworker that >> I should have used rpm(8) and not yum(8). > Your cow-orker clearly doesn't know what he/she/it is talking about. I very well know. --

Re: yum vs. rpm to install occasional products

2011-01-31 Thread Jerry Feldman
On 01/30/2011 11:00 AM, Robert G. (Doc) Savage wrote: > Your coworker is wrong. yum (Yellowdog Updater Modified ported from > Yellowdog Linux for the PowerPC) is an intelligent front end for rpm > (Red Hat Package Manager) that adds dependency resolution capabilities. > They both use the rpm API an

Re: yum vs. rpm to install occasional products

2011-01-30 Thread Genes MailLists
On 01/30/2011 11:34 AM, Tom Horsley wrote: > On Sun, 30 Jan 2011 11:19:16 -0500 > Genes MailLists wrote: > >> Great tip .. thanks. (Course you don't get the updates that way unless >> you mirror adobe's repo locally and use that .. ) > > Actually, once I get it installed, it is usually safe to r

Re: yum vs. rpm to install occasional products

2011-01-30 Thread Joe Zeff
On 01/30/2011 10:52 AM, Ian Pilcher wrote: > On 01/30/2011 12:36 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: >> Your cow-orker clearly doesn't know what he/she/it is talking about. > > Have you dealt with Oracle support? > No, but I used to do tech support for an ISP at senior level. IMAO, most of the phone firewall ha

Re: yum vs. rpm to install occasional products

2011-01-30 Thread Ian Pilcher
On 01/30/2011 12:36 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: > Your cow-orker clearly doesn't know what he/she/it is talking about. Have you dealt with Oracle support? -- Ian Pilcher arequip...@gmail.com

Re: yum vs. rpm to install occasional products

2011-01-30 Thread Joe Zeff
On 01/30/2011 07:37 AM, Jerry Feldman wrote: > The question was just for answering the criticism from my coworker that > I should have used rpm(8) and not yum(8). Your cow-orker clearly doesn't know what he/she/it is talking about. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscrib

Re: yum vs. rpm to install occasional products

2011-01-30 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sun, 30 Jan 2011 11:19:16 -0500 Genes MailLists wrote: > Great tip .. thanks. (Course you don't get the updates that way unless > you mirror adobe's repo locally and use that .. ) Actually, once I get it installed, it is usually safe to re-enable the repo since I now have the fedora versions

Re: yum vs. rpm to install occasional products

2011-01-30 Thread Genes MailLists
On 01/30/2011 10:46 AM, Tom Horsley wrote: > On Sun, 30 Jan 2011 16:24:04 +0100 . > > If I disable the adobe repo while installing the manually > downloaded acroread rpm, the dependencies get satisfied by > the fedora repos, and I automagically get all the 32 bit > support libs I need. Great tip

Re: yum vs. rpm to install occasional products

2011-01-30 Thread Robert G. (Doc) Savage
On Sun, 2011-01-30 at 10:00 -0500, Jerry Feldman wrote: > I recently installed Oracle-XE using yum --nogpgcheck localinstall > oracle...rpm. No problem except that I screwed up the configuration. My > coworker told me that I should use rpm(8) because the installation > manual specified it rather th

Re: yum vs. rpm to install occasional products

2011-01-30 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sun, 30 Jan 2011 16:24:04 +0100 Jon Ingason wrote: > The main difference is that yum(8) try to solve dependency while rpm(8) > does not. That, and the next time you use yum after using rpm, yum will scream at you about modifying the database outside of yum :-). I find it very useful to use t

Re: yum vs. rpm to install occasional products

2011-01-30 Thread Jerry Feldman
On 01/30/2011 10:24 AM, Jon Ingason wrote: > 2011-01-30 16:00, Jerry Feldman skrev: >> I recently installed Oracle-XE using yum --nogpgcheck localinstall >> oracle...rpm. No problem except that I screwed up the configuration. My >> coworker told me that I should use rpm(8) because the installation

Re: yum vs. rpm to install occasional products

2011-01-30 Thread Richard Shaw
On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 9:00 AM, Jerry Feldman wrote: > I recently installed Oracle-XE using yum --nogpgcheck localinstall > oracle...rpm. No problem except that I screwed up the configuration. My > coworker told me that I should use rpm(8) because the installation > manual specified it rather tha

Re: yum vs. rpm to install occasional products

2011-01-30 Thread Jon Ingason
2011-01-30 16:00, Jerry Feldman skrev: > I recently installed Oracle-XE using yum --nogpgcheck localinstall > oracle...rpm. No problem except that I screwed up the configuration. My > coworker told me that I should use rpm(8) because the installation > manual specified it rather than yum(8). My que

yum vs. rpm to install occasional products

2011-01-30 Thread Jerry Feldman
I recently installed Oracle-XE using yum --nogpgcheck localinstall oracle...rpm. No problem except that I screwed up the configuration. My coworker told me that I should use rpm(8) because the installation manual specified it rather than yum(8). My question is that is there any specific advantage u