On Thu, 2004-10-21 at 13:41, Diahron Grismore wrote: > Excuse the denseness about the use of up2date and/or yum but I need to > know a few things that will help me and perhaps others. (coming from the > other side of the tracks.) > 1. Where, if there are, information on the setup, use and understanding > of up2date/yum settings? man yum and man yum.conf should help you some for yum. > 2. When doing an update/install, do not the system create backups that > you can revert to in case of crashes? If so, where would they be? backups of what? > 3. Is it possible to delete header files on standalone system and have > it to auto-recreate itself? yum clean headers yum clean metadata yum clean cache yum clean packages > I've looked at Fedora-Us site, which have information on yum and the > others, however, the info only covers up to FC2. Is it just a matter of > sub'ng FC2 with FC3? Anything can be figured out in time, but I really > hate trying to reinvent the wheel when the instructions just feel out > the box behind me. it's a little out of date now but this is: http://www.phy.duke.edu/~rgb/General/yum_HOWTO/yum_HOWTO/ useful. -sv