On Wed, Jul 14, 2004 at 04:00:35PM -0400, William Hooper wrote: > Nifty Hat Mitch said: > [snip] > > > > yum like up2date is a tool for fetching rpm packages. Think of it as a > > front end. > > > > Both use rpm to do the actual install. > > > > The 'yum protocol' is well suited for the distributed mirror > > tricks and now up2date also includes yum along with http and ftp as > > 'protocols' to define how a mirror presents packages it fetches. > > Not quite. Yum is a metadata format (a data format for the RPM > data). The new thing about up2date is that it now understands yum > and apt metadata formats along with understanding the RHN format. > Apt, yum, and up2date all use http and ftp protocols. Yep... that is why I quoted 'yum protocol'. Since metadata is part of any protocol I felt I was safe enough. The concept of metadata is important to understand if anyone wishes to build a local yum distribution dir. Since network bandwidth is a real expense those of us with multiple boxes (+3 or so) should look at a local redistribution point. yum is a good tool for local (site) redistributions. The archives are full of discussions on how to build a local redistribution point. -- T o m M i t c h e l l /dev/dull where insight begins.
