difference between yum and up2date

[Paul Howarth]

On Sun, 2005-05-22 at 20:14 +0530, Ankush Grover wrote:
> Hey Paul,
> 
> Thanks for replying me so nicely.One more question.
> 
> One should delete these .hdr files or rpms from /var/spool/up2date
> directory  if the system is updated to the latest updates
> available(while using up2date tool).
> Or 
> Does deleting those .hdr files will affects the future updates.

It'll re-download the ones for current packages, as it uses them for
dependency resolution. You could delete the ones for old packages
though, and they should stay gone.

Paul.
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Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org>