On Wed, 2005-11-30 at 00:23 -0500, Chris Betti wrote: > 1. The two systems are different (an Athlon XP vs a Pentium 1). Will Yum > know to configure installations for the old system and not the new one? As long as exactarch=1 yum will try to update packages to the same arch. Not sure about things like kernel and kernel-devel though. > 2. How will Yum know if a dependency is installed? (is this info stored > in Yum's data files accessible over the NFS share?) yum stores its data in /var/cache/yum, and uses the rpmdb in /var/lib/rpm, both relative to --installroot. -- Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams <ivazquez@xxxxxxxxxxxx> http://fedora.ivazquez.net/ gpg --keyserver hkp://subkeys.pgp.net --recv-key 38028b72 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part Url : http://lists.dulug.duke.edu/pipermail/yum/attachments/20051130/bd2b59ca/attachment.bin
