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Seth Vidal committed Aug 31, 2004
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For usage information, please see the README.

yum uses a relatively standard ./configure ; make ; make install to
work, although it is recommended that you install an RPM as yum
requires that it be installed as an RPM.
run make
run make install, if you're a masochist.

you're better off making an rpm and installing it

If checking code out of CVS, you will need to run autoconf first to
create the configure script.
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Included programs:
/usr/sbin/yum Main program
/usr/sbin/yum-arch Generate the database that yum downloads
/usr/bin/yum Main program

Basic usage description follows:

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- yum list [package list]
List available packages

yum-arch is run from the distribution site in order to create the
databases which Yum determines remote package availability.

yum-arch is run in one of two ways:
yum-arch <top level of archive>




Theory of operation/use:Yum works by providing the headers of all the rpm packages in any system
repository. These headers are stored on the webserver in a subdir of the
top level of the repository. The client downloads all of the headers of
the packages it doesn't have installed or of packages that have been updated.
It uses the headers to determine the dependencies it will need using rpm's internal
dependency calculation. Once it knows what rpms it will need it downloads them and
performs the transaction.

Multiple repositories - explanation of how it came out/why.

Explanation of why not apt-rpm

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