On Wed, 8 Oct 2003, Garrick Staples wrote: > The reason why yum should do it because yum can pick the correct file, > and knows exactly where it is located. ftp/web clients don't know this. And this is it's advantage. Say I want to build an install image from the repositories available to me. wget works if all the rpms are in one place and there is only one version of each file. Otherwise I have to mirror/slurp/wget/curl the whole mess, then run some sort of management script on my side to sort it out. yum would let me download the right things in the first place. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Jim Wildman, CISSP, RHCE jim@xxxxxxxxxxxxx http://www.rossberry.com
