On Thu, 2003-05-15 at 10:40, Neal D. Becker wrote: > I'd like to try out yum for managing my linux boxes. It looks easy, and I > love python. > > A couple of questions first: > > 1) Will yum correctly handle arch? If I'm using an athlon system, I want to > install the athlon kernel. I want the i686 version of glibc, etc. > yes. I've spent a lot of time making sure that is done correctly. > 2) If yum included a --test or --dry-run switch, I wouldn't actually have to > bother asking. no it doesn't but if you run it w/o the -y it tells you all the neat stuff it's gonna do, in fairly good detail. -sv
