Today Mikkel L. Ellertson did spake thusly:
Tim wrote:
Tim:
Related to that, you can ignore or remove things that you're not going
to use. e.g. If you're never going to use OpenOffice.org, you can forgo
the updates for it, or even remove the thing entirely.
Les Mikesell:
The simple minded approach is to just 'yum update' once a week or so
and take everything it suggests.
Though, the first time you do it, you're presented with a very large
number of updates. Trying to do that piecemeal can be difficult, thanks
to all the dependencies, and YUM's default configuration not to keep
cached files.
Otherwise, it would be simpler to just keep on downloading stuff, until
you can do the updates.
Doesn't YUM keep the the downloads that it has not installed because
of dependencies, or other problems? In the past, when packages could
not be installed because of conflicting files, the packages were
still in the cache.
Default is not to cache files. Change:
keepcache=0
in /etc/yum.conf
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