On Wed, 7 Apr 2004, William Hooper wrote: > > Satish Balay said: > > > >> On Wed, 2004-04-07 at 12:11, William Hooper wrote: > > > >> > As others have suggested: > >> > Installing everything isn't a good starting point > >> > Yum is a more reliable after packages have been upgraded from their > >> > original version. > > > > Not necessarily. You can: > > > > - modify the source list - to modify yum behavior (if you don't want > > to work with certain repositories - like updates) > > > > - use local/cache-only mode - where it doesn't try to sync to the > > latest .hdr database. > > So you agree that yum is better than r-c-p after packages have been upgraded? I meant to convey yum is useable/reliable - before packages have been updated as well - not limited to "after packages have been upgraded". And I do prefer yum to r-c-p. However the issue with using yum - is the initial database creation [download of required .hdr files from all specified repositories]. Most folks are mistaking .hdr downloads as package downloads. Satish
