gpk-application (and probably yum) updates

[Seth Vidal]

On Thu, 18 Jun 2009, cornel panceac wrote:

> 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.
>
>             If I'm not mistaken this is how basicly yum works(i may be wrong)
>
>             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

as a counter note:

http://skvidal.wordpress.com/2009/06/18/yum-benchmarks/


-sv