mixing up2date and yum for packages

[Jewels]

Hi all..

If you have a sytem running both up2date and yum (to keep a current
redhat repo) and want to install packages using either/or - is there a
way to specify which app to use for package control? I would like to
be able to control on a per package basis if possible. Or should I
just bite the bullet and configure yum to handle the redhat updating
rather than up2date?

thanks
~J~

[Peter Meier]

Hi

the later would be better, will lead to less headache and definitely the
way to go.

However you can define per package definition the provider puppet should
use:

package{'i-am-a-yum-package':
ensure => present,
provider => yum,
}

package{'i-am-a-up2date-package':
ensure => present,
provider => up2date,
}

cheers pete

[Joe McDonagh]

It's been a while, but isn't up2date transparent to yum now via the
up2date yum plugin shipped with RHEL?

[Matthew Hyclak]

On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 10:31 AM, Joe McDonagh
<joseph.e...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> It's been a while, but isn't up2date transparent to yum now via the
> up2date yum plugin shipped with RHEL?
>

Only on RHEL 5 and newer.

Matt