Re: apt, yum, up2date, smartpm, ... ?

On Thu, 22 Sep 2005 12:28:13 +0100, Karanbir Singh wrote:

> Motor wrote:
>>>Yum does use a local cache (/var/cache/yum/) for headers and packages,
>>>although you're right that it does check back with the repository
>>>server each time it's started unless you use the "-C" (operate from
>>>cache only).
>> If only... I'm using the version of YUM that comes with FC4:
>> yum-2.4.0-0.fc4
>> 
>> and -C seems to do little if anything. Certainly a search like:
>> 
> does 'yum makecache' help the situation ?

No difference, but thanks anyway.