gpk-application (and probably yum) updates

[cornel panceac]

2009/6/16 cornel panceac <cpanceac at gmail.com>

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> 2009/6/16 Nikolay Vladimirov <nikolay at vladimiroff.com>
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>> Actually there is a small meta file(repomd.xml) that tells if the repo was
>> updated or not. If the repo was updated the whole primary.xml is downloaded.
>> And crosschecked with your installed packages for updates. And if there are
>> any matches then you have an update notificaton.
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>> If I'm not mistaken this is how basicly yum works(i may be wrong)
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>> If you just consider the timestamp and notify that there are updates if it
>> changed. Then you have to go trough "Do you want to check if some of your
>> installed packages were updated?" And most probably you'll get "Sorry, no
>> updates yet" (unless you installed every single fedora parckage) . This
>> creates pointless clicking and waste of time.
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> is there a way to check this? or is this documented anywhere?


as a side note: "Having Yum for Breakfast"

http://www.linux-mag.com/cache/7382/1.html



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