RPM vs YUM

[Dave Cross]

On 3/7/06, Ali Helmy <alihelmy at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hey mates,
>
> Probably a really stupid question but...
>
> Are packages (.rpm's) installed using "rpm -i *.rpm" plugged into the yum
> database too? I mean do they get updated with yum update, etc?

Actually, you're looking at it the wrong way round. It's all stored in
the rpm database. yum is just a friendly front-end to that.

Dave...