Re: [CentOS] Re: Why is yum not liked by some? -- CVS analogy (and why you're not getting it)

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

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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.