On Tue, 2009-08-04 at 11:30 -0600, Stuart McGraw wrote: > I just installed Fedora 11 on my new pc. Shortly > thereafter I was presented with a pop-up box that > said 28 security updates were available. I (foolishly > as it turned out) clicked the update button. My > internet connection is a modem and the machine > has been downloading for about 20 hours now. > Clicking on the little updater icon in the Gnome > panel does not offer any information or control. > > So... how do I find out: > * What it is downloading? > * What is the total size of the downloads? > * How much is done, how much remains? > * How to pause it so I can get my email? > * How do I turn off auto-updates permanently? > (In System->Prefs->Software Updates I had set > "Check for updates" and "Check for major updates" > to "Never" but it still seems to be checking. Not sure what all the answers to those questions are, but if you install yum-presto, it should cut down the size of the updates by quite a bit. Jonathan
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