why doesn't yum cache anything?

[Remco Treffkorn]

On Thursday 30 December 2004 22:36, Jamie Zawinski wrote:
>     not use yum?  Is there something else I should be using instead?

Apt.

"apt-get update" reads the crap and caches it.
"apt-get upgrade" uses the cached crap to upgrade your system.
"apt-get install whatever" installs the current (according to the cached crap) 
version of  "whatever".

I really like Apt, but it seems to be less supported than yum and up2date.

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