[wplug] Code 6 Package Manager

[Bryan J. Smith]

Jonathan Billings <billings at negate.org> wrote:
> Package Manager (pirut) is just a graphical front end interface to 
> 'yum'.  Most likely, it is trying to update the list of packages
> when it starts up, and since your yum configuration has network
> repositories in  it, it will only work if it can access the
network.

Oh, good catch!  I don't know why I didn't put that together.  Yeah,
that'll be the reason why it tries to access on first launch.

[ And one small thing I wish YUM had that APT does, a separate
"update repository meta-data" command. ]



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