What exactly is 'yum list recent' ??
William Case
billlinux at rogers.com
Tue Feb 3 03:26:38 UTC 2009
Sorry g, I asked the wrong question.
On Mon, 2009-02-02 at 22:13 -0500, William Case wrote:
> Thanks g;
>
> I had tried to phrase my question in such a way as to indicate I was
> asking a deeper question than could be answered by 'man'.
>
> For example, I have /var/log/rpmpkgs-20090201, that contains more
> packages than my most recent update but not all. I have 5 dated rpmpkgs
> in all. How or what is 'yum list recent' giving me? In this context,
> what does recent mean? Or, does yum get its recent list elsewhere?
'yum list recent' tells me what is recent in (external) repositories.
I need to construct an rpm --query to get the answer I want about what
has been recently downloaded onto my machine. I'll try that now.
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Regards Bill
Fedora 10, Gnome 2.24.2
Evo.2.24.3, Emacs 22.2.1
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