Dotan Cohen wrote:
On 8/1/05, Mike McCarty mike.mccarty@sbcglobal.net wrote:
Craig White wrote:
On Mon, 2005-08-01 at 14:40 -0500, Mike McCarty wrote:
Dotan Cohen wrote:
On 8/1/05, Mike McCarty mike.mccarty@sbcglobal.net wrote:
Would you please explain to me how my machine automagically knows it needs to change the content of a file on its disc when the legislature makes a change to the way DST works?
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Mike
$ man yum
Dotan Cohen http://lyricslist.com/lyrics/artist_albums/325/marcy_playground.php Marcy Playground Song Lyrics
I already know how to use yum. Please respond to what I wrote rather than to what you read.
you sure ask a lot of questions...
'updates-released' is checked against the local cache and new updates are thus recognized and downloaded if/when appropriate. Of course, if you knew how yum worked, you would know that.
As for how and when updates are released, that of course is up to the packagers.
Craig
How does one get through to you? I ALREADY KNOW HOW TO USE YUM. I KNOW HOW IT WORKS. READ WHAT I WROTE.
You again responded to what you read rather than what I asked.
Is English your first/primary language?
The purpose of my questions is to point out that the fellow wanted to know how to update the files *HIMSELF* and the only responses he's getting are from people like you who cannot/will not respond to the question AS ASKED.
The answer to my question, AS ASKED, is "It is impossible for your machine automatically to change the configuration files by itself when your local government passes a new ordinance."
And the answer to the OP's question is so far not yet given.
Mike
You are referring to two different "you"'s. I was the first one who anwsered your question, then you got pissed at me. Craig was the second one who gave you the same answer, then you yelled at him as if he was me, repeating what I had said.
First: Sorry I blew my top. Also, I should have checked my attributions more closely.
And just so you know, the most helpful people on this list are not nessacarily the native English speakers (Dalloz comes to mind). And
Never thought so.
the next time that you want me to answer a question, you can go ahead and ask in hebrew, so that you will be sure to get an answer that satisfies you.
Lest you think that I am foreign-language challenged, I speak two languages fluently (English is not my first language, though it is now my language of choice) and enough of a third that I have been mistaken for being a native speaker by native speakers on three occasions.
And me and Craig and others won't have to try so hard to understand you. Or you can just appreciate them.
The issue in this particular case was the use of the rhetorical question. It might be the sort of thing that a non-native speaker might not recognize.
An extended version of the answer to your question: When American lawmakers go and change their timezones, lots of non-native english speakers write little files and put them in yum repros, so that you can download them and update your system. And I hope you don't mind a native Finnish speaker developing your next kernel.
I don't care about that. I suspect that you have used some equipment I worked on to make phone calls long distance.
Mike