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

[Evan Cooch]

At 06:46 PM 2/18/2004, Edward Chase wrote:

>As you've discovered, the downloads you were watching were the header files.
>
>I do believe that when you created your RHN machine account, it did a
>similar, but reverse action.  I believe that your machine told the RHN
>servers what was installed locally.  Yum manages itself locally, RHN managed
>itself on their servers.
>
>This is my understanding.

Thanks - I believe your interpretation of what the RHN does (or did, in my 
case) is correct.

Makes for sense now.

So, on to the big test - upgrading the kernel and kernel-source.