Rick Stevens wrote:
Dean Mumby wrote:
yes
WTF? That is singly useless, Dean. If you're going to comment on something, a) stop top posting, and b) post something useful. A single word answer that doesn't even address the question is spectacularly stupid.
"Is all of this completely normal operating procedure for yum? " once again YES
When I started using Linux 5 years ago , I was told that first google , second google, third read the man , that being said , I felt lets answer the question , if he wants to know more , he will hopefully go and have a look , it took me all of one search to find this link
http://linux.duke.edu/projects/yum/howitworks.ptml
I have over 22000 messages in my FC1 folder and it is mostly because people dont want to bother with doing the research for themselves , Linux is a very powerful OS and although I agree with increasing its adoption rate , I also believe it is the availability of information that's makes its users more competent.
Spoon feeding is not the best solution.
Regards Dean
I trust you feel satisfied with your spectacularly intelligent answer.
Clint wrote:
Every now and again, I notice that yum will download needed headers, which makes me think that an update is about to be done, only to report no updates are needed. My yum.conf is mostly a copy of that found at artoo, but with an exclude=kernel* line and a seamonkey repo section.
My question is, what is yum doing with the headers if there are no updates to be done? Is all of this completely normal operating procedure for yum? I'm "curious" about how it's working, rather than "sleeplessly concerned" something is going wrong! <grin>
Here is one such example displaying the symptoms that I notice:
# yum update
Gathering header information file(s) from server(s)
Server: Fedora Core 1 - i386 - Base
Server: Fedora.us Extras (Stable)
Server: Fedora.us Extras (Testing)
Server: Fedora.us Extras (Unstable)
Server: Livna.org - Fedora Compatible Packages (stable)
Server: Livna.org - Fedora Compatible Packages (testing)
Server: Livna.org - Fedora Compatible Packages (unstable)
Server: macromedia.mplug.org - Flash Plugin
Server: Fedora Core 1 - i386 - Released Updates
Finding updated packages
Downloading needed headers
perl-Net-SCP-0-0.07-0.fdr 100% |=========================| 1.8 kB 00:00
nvidia-glx-devel-0-1.0.53 100% |=========================| 3.3 kB 00:00
No Packages Available for Update
No actions to take
I didn't see any description of this behavior in man yum. Any insight would be appreciated!
Thanks, Clint
