Connie Sieh wrote:
> Miles,
> 
> 
> -connie sieh
> 
> On Tue, 14 Jun 2005, Miles O'Neal wrote:
> 
> 
>>I've never used yum before.  I tried
>>"yum list installed" hoping it would
>>just list the RPMs available for an
>>update.  What I'm seeing, however,
>>looks like it was actually downloading
>>the packages.  What is happening here?
> 
> 
> The first thing that yum does is download the headers of each of the 
> rpms in the repository.  These will have names that look like rpms as they 
> represent rpms, but they end in .hdr .  After the headers are downloaded 
> yum will do what you requested.
> 

It will only download the headers once, unless there are new headers on 
the server, then it will just download the new one's.

Troy

> To see what updates are available
> 
>   yum list updates
> 
> A
> 
>   yum list installed
> 
> shows what rpms are installed.
> 
> 
>>We're running SL304.
>>
>>Thanks,
>>Miles
>>
> 
> -Connie Sieh


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