RPM vs YUM

[Christofer C. Bell]

On 3/7/06, Steven Ringwald <SRingwald at telesmartnetworks.com> wrote:
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> Basically, yes they are. YUM actually uses the RPM database to figure out
> what is installed, and then checks it against its database to see what
> updates are available.

While true, using rpm directly will not log installations to the yum
log file in /var/log/yum.log.  This is a useful log for figuring out
when you installed or removed something.

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Chris

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