Jim Cornette: >>> I believe you have to run createrepo every time your local rpm storage >>> directory is updated with rpms. You do not need to do this for >>> up2date. Tim: >> I've never had to use any createrepo command any time I'd added new >> RPMs, via any method (up2date/yum/rpm command). John Summerfied: > I'm sure that if you mirror the repository then you don't need to run > createrepo. Other way around, I'd have thought. If you wanted to make your own mirror, then you'd be creating repo files. If you were just updating your system from a repository, you don't need to. The original poster appears to be talking about keeping their system up to date, and the merits of yum versus up2date being discussed. And that was where I chimed in: Yum being relatively painless to use to keep your system up to date, even multiple ones. I just share out my YUM cache over my LAN, and manually rpm -Uvh the latest RPMs that I've received onto the other machines - providing that I've already got them on those machines. I should probably use the freshen option, and let the machines take care of that themselves, now that I think of it. -- Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.
