Up2date/Yum - Information.

[seth vidal]

On Thu, 2004-10-21 at 13:41, Diahron Grismore wrote:
> Excuse the denseness about the use of up2date and/or yum but I need to 
> know a few things that will help me and perhaps others. (coming from the 
> other side of the tracks.)
> 1. Where, if there are, information on the setup, use and understanding 
> of up2date/yum settings?

man yum and man yum.conf should help you some for yum.

> 2. When doing an update/install, do not the system create backups that 
> you can revert to in case of crashes? If so, where would they be?

backups of what?

> 3.  Is it possible to delete header files on standalone system and have 
> it to auto-recreate itself?

yum clean headers
yum clean metadata
yum clean cache
yum clean packages

> I've looked at Fedora-Us site, which have information on yum and the 
> others, however, the info only covers up to FC2. Is it just a matter of 
> sub'ng FC2 with FC3? Anything can be figured out in time, but I really 
> hate trying to  reinvent the wheel when the instructions just feel out 
> the box behind me.

it's a little out of date now but this is:
http://www.phy.duke.edu/~rgb/General/yum_HOWTO/yum_HOWTO/

useful.

-sv