[yum-cvs] yum/docs yum.8,1.35,1.36

Panu Matilainen pmatilai at linux.duke.edu
Tue Dec 20 19:14:56 UTC 2005


Update of /home/groups/yum/cvs/yum/docs
In directory login1.linux.duke.edu:/tmp/cvs-serv7098

Modified Files:
	yum.8 
Log Message:
- document "clean metadata" operation
- document that all yum operations use the active repository configuration,
  including clean


Index: yum.8
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RCS file: /home/groups/yum/cvs/yum/docs/yum.8,v
retrieving revision 1.35
retrieving revision 1.36
diff -u -r1.35 -r1.36
--- yum.8	12 Dec 2005 18:19:30 -0000	1.35
+++ yum.8	20 Dec 2005 19:14:54 -0000	1.36
@@ -56,6 +56,8 @@
 .PP 
 Unless the \-\-help or \-h option is given, one of the above commands
 must be present\&.
+.PP
+Repository configuration is honored in all operations.
 .PP 
 .IP "\fBinstall\fP"
 Is used to install the latest version of a package or
@@ -138,7 +140,7 @@
 Produces a list of all dependencies and what packages provide those
 dependencies for the given packages.
 .IP
-.PP 
+.PP
 .SH "GENERAL OPTIONS"
 Most command line options can be set using the configuration file as
 well and the descriptions indicate the necessary configuration option
@@ -234,14 +236,21 @@
 .PP 
 .SH "CLEAN OPTIONS"
 The following are the ways which you can invoke \fByum\fP in clean
-mode.
+mode. Note that "all files" in the commands below means 
+"all files in currently enabled repositories". 
+If you want to also clean any (temporarily) disabled repositories you need to
+use \fB--enablerepo='*'\fP option.
 
 .IP "\fByum clean packages\fP"
 Eliminate any cached packages from the system.  Note that packages are not automatically deleted after they are downloaded.
 
 .IP "\fByum clean headers\fP"
+Eliminate all of the header files which yum uses for dependency resolution.
+
+.IP "\fByum clean metadata\fP"
 Eliminate all of the files which yum uses to determine the remote
-availability of packages. Using this option will force yum to download all the headers the next time it is run.
+availability of packages. Using this option will force yum to download all the 
+metadata the next time it is run.
 
 .IP "\fByum clean all\fP"
 Runs \fByum clean packages\fP and \fByum clean headers\fP as above.




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