Sorry g, I asked the wrong question. On Mon, 2009-02-02 at 22:13 -0500, William Case wrote: > Thanks g; > > I had tried to phrase my question in such a way as to indicate I was > asking a deeper question than could be answered by 'man'. > > For example, I have /var/log/rpmpkgs-20090201, that contains more > packages than my most recent update but not all. I have 5 dated rpmpkgs > in all. How or what is 'yum list recent' giving me? In this context, > what does recent mean? Or, does yum get its recent list elsewhere? 'yum list recent' tells me what is recent in (external) repositories. I need to construct an rpm --query to get the answer I want about what has been recently downloaded onto my machine. I'll try that now. -- Regards Bill Fedora 10, Gnome 2.24.2 Evo.2.24.3, Emacs 22.2.1 -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
