[CentOS] Re: Why is yum not liked by some? -- CVS analogy (and why you're not getting it)
Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com
Sat Sep 10 03:15:24 UTC 2005
On Fri, 2005-09-09 at 21:28, Roy wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-09-09 at 16:58 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote:
>
> But poking around I see some xml
> > gunk that I didn't expect (hadn't looked closely since it was
> > just headers, packages, and header.info). I wonder if the
> > installed RPM data gets cached now too.
>
> Yeah, that xml gunk isn't anything... it's only gives all the info that
> yam uses to update something... not too important.
>
> Maybe you need to maybe look inside? Ya think?
Maybe. There was a time when it didn't exist and yum
did all the same things without it. I thought there was
some philosophical reason for all of those individual
.hdr files but maybe that has changed now.
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Les Mikesell
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