Chapter 8. Yum and Repositories
In this chapter, we'll cover the following recipes:
- Managing yum history
- Creating a copy (mirror) of any (RHN) repository
- Configuring additional repositories
- Setting up yum to automatically update
- Configuring
logrotatefor yum - Recovering from a corrupted RPM database
Introduction
Originally, you needed to compile your GNU/Linux system manually from source, which used to be time consuming and could be problematic if you couldn't get your dependencies straight. Red Hat created Red Hat Package Manager (RPM) in 1998 to address the concerns of dependencies and reduce the time needed to install a system (among others). Since then, RPM has been improved by the Open Source community. One such improvement is yum.
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