Yum - um...

[jludwig]

On Tuesday 07 March 2006 16:58, Eric Brunson wrote:
> Because even just doing an "info" can cause metadata and header files to
> be downloaded and yum needs to keep these under control so multiple
> processes are not trying to download and update the same files.
>
> If you use the "-C" option to yum, which tells it to only operate from
> cached information, you can have multiple instances running.
>

To add;

Also yum uses rpm and it needs to keep control of it's metadata also.
And also apt-get, smart, synaptic, etc. (which also use rpm).

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