On 3/7/06, Steven Ringwald <SRingwald(a)telesmartnetworks.com> wrote:
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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