On Wed, 2007-05-02 at 09:57 -0700, Gallie, Keith wrote: > > Reaching the architecture review stage of my little project and rpm and > yum are still on the table. I decided to review this small thread and > came across > > "if the os is managed by rpm all of the above are possible." > > I may be mis-reading this but why would the OS have to be managed by rpm > to make the 'above' (now below) possible? I have whittled and hammered > down to red hat only OS support, for now, and rpm and yum are being used > on the target systems but I don't understand why the OS would have to be > managed by rpm to use rpm to transport other data. > the os doesn't really need to be - it just makes finding dependencies easier. -sv _______________________________________________ Yum mailing list Yum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.dulug.duke.edu/mailman/listinfo/yum
