[Yum] Headers Not Downloading

[Frederic Herman]

I think my main problem is not understanding how yum works.  What is the 
best documentation for me to read?

See also my questions/comments below inline.

Thanks for your help.

Fred


seth vidal wrote:

>On Sun, 2005-11-27 at 09:08 -0700, Frederic Herman wrote:
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>>I want to be able to see what package updates are available before I 
>>manually update them using yumex.  Is there a way to do this with yum or 
>>should I be doing something else?  In some cases, I may see an available 
>>package update and then decide I really don't even want the rpm on the 
>>system, and therefore remove it.
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>okay then just run:
>yum list updates
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Does that function go to the remote repos or does it just use the local 
cache.  If the former is the case, then that's what I want.

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>that lists the updates needed on your system. Then you can read the
>lists of pkgs there.
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>>I'm trying to maintain several machines on a network, and need to come 
>>up with some strategy to do this.  If you could recommend documentation 
>>on this, it would be appreciated.  I really thought that having the 
>>headers in the cache was a good way to do what I need.
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>you don't need the headers in the cache to do it at all.
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>If you want to get a handle on what you're using do this:
>yum list installed >> somefile
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>then read through that file and look for pkgs you don't need on your
>system.
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>then 'yum remove' those pkgs to get rid of them and/or see what other
>things depend on them.
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>that way you can trim down your system.
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It seems that I can also use yumex to do the same thing.

>-sv
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