Testing for package equality?

[Daniel Veillard]

On Sat, Jan 10, 2004 at 02:18:32AM -0600, J.B. Nicholson-Owens wrote:
> Tom Mitchell wrote:
> > However yum and up2date do not understand this concept and will pull
> > header and other information from all the resources I list as if they
> > contained little (or nothing) in common.
> 
> Is there a hash in the header that yum could use to realize which packages
> are the same?

  yes there is an MD5 hash which should be just fine for this !

Daniel

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