gpk-application (and probably yum) updates

[cornel panceac]

2009/6/16 Nikolay Vladimirov <nikolay at vladimiroff.com>

>
>
> Actually there is a small meta file(repomd.xml) that tells if the repo was
> updated or not. If the repo was updated the whole primary.xml is downloaded.
> And crosschecked with your installed packages for updates. And if there are
> any matches then you have an update notificaton.
>
> If I'm not mistaken this is how basicly yum works(i may be wrong)
>
> If you just consider the timestamp and notify that there are updates if it
> changed. Then you have to go trough "Do you want to check if some of your
> installed packages were updated?" And most probably you'll get "Sorry, no
> updates yet" (unless you installed every single fedora parckage) . This
> creates pointless clicking and waste of time.
>

is there a way to check this? or is this documented anywhere?

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