On Tuesday 07 March 2006 16:58, Eric Brunson wrote: > Because even just doing an "info" can cause metadata and header files to > be downloaded and yum needs to keep these under control so multiple > processes are not trying to download and update the same files. > > If you use the "-C" option to yum, which tells it to only operate from > cached information, you can have multiple instances running. > To add; Also yum uses rpm and it needs to keep control of it's metadata also. And also apt-get, smart, synaptic, etc. (which also use rpm). -- Some people have convictions. Some people have opinions I think I'll have a cheeseburger!
