On Mon, 2004-08-02 at 22:59 -0400, Clay Amerault wrote: > I've read through the yum and rpm docs and want to make sure I > understand correctly. I use yum to download rpms from remote > repositories, and I use rpm to query the rpm database my own local > machine? yum doesn't read the rpm database stored on my local machine, > right? > yum has to read the db stored on your local machine in order to know what to download. It doesn't send that information anywhere, it is just used locally. -sv
