On Wed, 18 Feb 2004, Johnny Canuck wrote: > Greetings - > > Various colleagues suggested trying yum to manage package upgrade on my RH > box (7.3). Since RH went corporate, up2date doesn't work for 7.3, and I was > looking for an alternative. Tried apt-get, with little success. Installed > yum, and am in the process of trying it out. > > So, I ran yum check-update. and after an hour of watching it continue to > download package after package (whether I wanted them or not), I kill the > process, and tried something more direct: say, update one single package. What you see here is the download of the yum database for the repository. It consits of 'rpm header' info ( .hdr files - not .rpm files) Once the header stuff is available locally - yum can check dependencies across all installed/installable packages - and then download the required rpm files. Satish
