[Yum-devel] Looking for yum technical information

[seth vidal]

On Tue, 2010-08-10 at 04:45 -0400, Ronald Vazquez wrote:
> Hello list:
> 
> I am conducting some internal research for my team and was wondering
> if you or anyone would be able to point me in the right direction.  I
> am looking for a document [perhaps a series of documents] which would
> outline the entire $(yum list), $(yum check-update), $(yum update), or
> even $(yum –y install whatever).  I am interested in learning about
> the communication and data flow around the process.
>  
> Would you know if such document exists?  It would be nice if a
> “Understanding Yum Internals” or “Yum, the Big Picture” was available
> somewhere.


There are the programming guides on yum.baseurl.org:
http://yum.baseurl.org/#DeveloperDocumentationExamples

but not a lot else. If you have specific questions you're best off
asking here or in #yum on freenode.

-sv