At 04:42 PM 2/18/2004, Satish Balay wrote: >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) So I've noticed - thanks for the clarification. >Once the header stuff is available locally - yum can check >dependencies across all installed/installable packages - and then >download the required rpm files. I figured as much (after the fact) - I guess the related question then is the 'analogous' to the RPM database the up2date (RH) uses? I presume it's smart about headers, and from here on in downloads only those updated headers that are needed for a particular package upgrade?
