Some problems getting started

[Satish Balay]

On Wed, 7 Apr 2004, William Hooper wrote:

> 
> Satish Balay said:
> >
> >> On Wed, 2004-04-07 at 12:11, William Hooper wrote:
> >
> >> > As others have suggested:
> >> > Installing everything isn't a good starting point
> >> > Yum is a more reliable after packages have been upgraded from their
> >> > original version.
> >
> > Not necessarily. You can:
> >
> >  - modify the source list - to modify yum behavior (if you don't want
> >    to work with certain repositories - like updates)
> >
> >  - use local/cache-only mode - where it doesn't try to sync to the
> >    latest .hdr database.
> 
> So you agree that yum is better than r-c-p after packages have been upgraded?

I meant to convey yum is useable/reliable - before packages
have been updated as well - not limited to "after packages have been
upgraded". And I do prefer yum to r-c-p.

However the issue with using yum - is the initial database creation
[download of required .hdr files from all specified repositories].
Most folks are mistaking .hdr downloads as package downloads.

Satish