[Yum] total yum newbie | RH 7.3 box | # packages?

[Satish Balay]

On Wed, 18 Feb 2004, Johnny Canuck wrote:

> Greetings -
> 
> Various colleagues suggested trying yum to manage package upgrade on my RH 
> box (7.3). Since RH went corporate, up2date doesn't work for 7.3, and I was 
> looking for an alternative. Tried apt-get, with little success. Installed 
> yum, and am in the process of trying it out.
> 
> So, I ran yum check-update. and after an hour of watching it continue to 
> download package after package (whether I wanted them or not), I kill the 
> process, and tried something more direct: say, update one single package.

What you see here is the download of the yum database for the
repository.  It consits of 'rpm header' info ( .hdr files - not .rpm
files)

Once the header stuff is available locally - yum can check
dependencies across all installed/installable packages - and then
download the required rpm files.

Satish