2008/4/1, Rahul Sundaram <sundaram@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > Mark wrote: > > Hey, > > > > I was just about to install gimp or so i thought. > > I didn't look in Applications -> Graphics to see if gimp was already > > there. This time it was but i found that out after i did: yum -y > > install gimp. > > > > Now for the feature or bug in yum. > > When you have a application installed and then yum: yum -y install > > gimp then yum first needs to download updates of it's repository.. do > > something else and than it simply tells me: Package > > 2:gimp-2.4.5-1.fc9.i386 already installed and latest version > > > > But wouldn't it be best if yum FIRST checks if the package is already > > installed and if it is then ask the user to check for updates? > > > Unless yum checks the repository, it can't tell you whether the version > you have is the latest or not. I am not sure I understand your > suggestion. Can you explain further? > > Rahul Well. let yum first check if the package you try to install is already installed (version independent) than let yum (if it finds a installed package) ask the user if he/she wants to check for updates of that package. Pseudo code style.. yum list install gimp [1] if yum found gimp - ask to look for updates and install them if the user answers "y" else - install gimp [1] I noticed that yum wants to update his local repository here as well. I think it's better to get that behaviour out yum and only update it's local repo if there is none available or a update command is given or a install command is given. Hope that explains it better. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
