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RPM -- plans, goals, etc.

RPM -- plans, goals, etc.

Posted Dec 15, 2006 14:47 UTC (Fri) by smoogen (subscriber, #97)
In reply to: RPM -- plans, goals, etc. by rvfh
Parent article: RPM -- plans, goals, etc.

Interesting. This must be a configuration option then as most of the Debian systems I have helped maintain had to have a 'apt-get update' run before I could get useful information. I wasn't the primary admin so this could have been something the other admins did for some obscure reason.


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RPM -- plans, goals, etc.

Posted Dec 15, 2006 17:57 UTC (Fri) by Zenith (guest, #24899) [Link] (2 responses)

> had to have a 'apt-get update' run before I could get useful information

What he meant was that what rpm does is LIKE apt doing an 'apt-get update' first every time you used apt. It does of course no this, as it is, well, annoying :)

RPM -- plans, goals, etc.

Posted Dec 15, 2006 20:27 UTC (Fri) by drag (guest, #31333) [Link] (1 responses)

The first thing about yum that I learned was the '-C' (or is it -c?) option which runs it using cached information so it doesn't pull down new headers each time.

RPM -- plans, goals, etc.

Posted Dec 15, 2006 21:02 UTC (Fri) by Zenith (guest, #24899) [Link]

Neat, I did not know about that little trick, which probably comes from the fact that I have spent way too little time administrating a Fedora/Red Hat system :)

But thanks for the tip anyway.


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