up2date anomaly - 'hdr' vs 'rpm'

[William Hooper]

Price Technology said:
> Just finished with a fresh install of FC2 on my laptop, followed by
> running up2date and manually installing the kernel-doc package.  My up2date
> icon is now a very happy blue ball.
> 
> The anomaly I'm seeing is when I look in the up2date folder, I see many
> header files without corresponding rpm's.  This same behaviour was noted on
> my desktop when I installed / updated it.

Those are headers for RPMs that you have (a) already installed or (b) haven't downloaded yet.

When the RPM is on the server, you get the header.  When you need to install it, you get the RPM.  (Depending on your config) when you install it, the RPM is removed.


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William Hooper