On becoming a Fedora maintainer
Recently, Rahul Sandaram (Fedora dev and creator of the Omega Fedora Remix) offered to sponsor me to become a Fedora maintainer, which I accepted. A day or so later I […]
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Testing yum’s autoremove orphaned deps feature
Yesterday I wrote about yum’s new feature which can automatically remove unused dependencies when a package is uninstalled. Today I got my hands on a suitable build of yum (add […]
Read moreYum gets autoremove dependency feature
Coming from a Gentoo/Debian background, one thing that has constantly bugged me on RPM based platforms like Fedora is the lack of decent, reliable dependency removal. It seems so simple […]
Read moreYum still on the menu?
Update: I’ve tried to post my results back to Seth’s thread but it won’t work, so I’ve emailed him instead. In response to my article comparing Yum and Apt (at […]
Read moreHaving Yum for Breakfast
This week I decided to write a comparative article between Yum and Apt (the package managers). Using Fedora 11 and Ubuntu 9.04, I performed various tests and benchmarked both the […]
Read moreSecurity, ahh, update?
This morning I turned on my openSUSE work machine and was greeted (as I often am) with a message to update the system. Today’s message was special however, and perhaps […]
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