F13-Question: Cannot start a new yum immediately after an old "yum update" ends

[drago01]

On Sat, Apr 3, 2010 at 9:30 PM, Richard Hughes <hughsient at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 3 April 2010 19:53, drago01 <drago01 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Does it re download the data or just use the cached ones by yum?
>
> If the cache is new enough, then it just uses that.

OK

>> This should make the whole operation shorter so that it fixes both the
>> GUI being out of date and does not block yum for a long time.
>
> PackageKit also downloads the update details as well as the update
> list itself. That's probably why it's downloading anything additional
> if it is.

OK, that makes sense. (this shouldn't lock yum though, as it downloads
data that yum does not even care about).