On Wed, May 05, 2004 at 06:23:32PM -0700, Tom Mitchell wrote: > On Wed, May 05, 2004 at 07:58:41PM -0500, akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > > > This "yum install grip" should do the right thing. > > > > > Maybe it should but it does not. As a said what happens is a > > downloading of a large collection of seemingly irrelevant hdr files. > > Try it and you will see. > > yum will first download "header.info". Look under /var/cache/yum > Any header it does not have cached it will then download. > > After it has the headers it will look at "grip*hdr" and see > if your version of grip needs to be updated or simply a > fresh install. > > Cut and paste the action so I can see what is cooking. Ok, I'll accept that and at work with a T1 line that is not a bad idea. However, at home that is a disaster. To have to download all the headers just to find out if grip has to be updated over a modem line seems like too musch work. Why does youm not download just the header for the package I want and then check if it needs to bre updated. Does this mean every time I run yum install all the headers have to be re-downloaded. That does not seem like the way I would want it to workd. With apt-get it just looked for the package I was wanting to install and told me if a newer version was available. I just don't understand the approach of yum. Could someone clarify? ------------------------------------------- Aaron Konstam Computer Science Trinity University One Trinity Place. San Antonio, TX 78212-7200 telephone: (210)-999-7484 email:akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxx
