[Yum] a yum question

[csieh]

You can also look in /root/install.log to see what the installer 
installed.  Or in /root/upgrade.log if it was a upgrade.

-Connie Sieh
csieh at fnal.gov
On Thu, 29 Jul 2004, Paul Pianta wrote:

> Juan Fernandez wrote:
> 
> > Hi.
> >
> >  
> >
> > I installed yum on a server and issued the command "yum update"
> >
> >  
> >
> > Does it upgrades only the packages installed or it upgrades all the 
> > rpm in the distribution regardless of what I installed ?
> >
> >  
> >
> > I am asking because when I installed RH 9 I didn't installed sendmail 
> > for example, and when I ran yum update I saw in the command output 
> > something about sendmail...
> >
> >  
> >
> > And I asked myself what yum is doing because I didn't installed send mail.
> >
> >  
> >
> > Then I tried rpm -q and I received that an answer that sendmail Is 
> > installed!!! 
> >
> RedHat can be a bit sneaky with sendmail. You may think that it wasn't 
> installed when you installed the system but i betcha that it was.
> 
> Run 'rpm -qa --last|grep sendmail' and that will give you the date that 
> all of your rpms were installed. Check the date for sendmail and that 
> will tell you if it got installed recently by yum - or if it got 
> installed when the system was installed.
> 
> pantz
> 
>