[Yum] Running Yum Remotely

[Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams]

On Wed, 2005-11-30 at 00:23 -0500, Chris Betti wrote:
> 1. The two systems are different (an Athlon XP vs a Pentium 1). Will Yum 
> know to configure installations for the old system and not the new one?

As long as exactarch=1 yum will try to update packages to the same arch.
Not sure about things like kernel and kernel-devel though.

> 2. How will Yum know if a dependency is installed? (is this info stored 
> in Yum's data files accessible over the NFS share?)

yum stores its data in /var/cache/yum, and uses the rpmdb
in /var/lib/rpm, both relative to --installroot.

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Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams <ivazquez at ivazquez.net>
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