On 02/27/2013 06:31 AM, Tim wrote:
On Mon, 2013-02-25 at 21:37 -0500, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote:
After trying to repeatedly get the update to go from clicking on the
entry in the Gnome Menu, I decided to just run "yum update
--skip-broken"...and immediately the entry disappeared, and I was
"allowed" do download and install all 11 updates. Gotta love that
Terminal!
For what it's worth, I rarely ever use the GUI tool for doing updates,
because so much of what is happening is hidden from you, and your
options are quite limited.
The GUIs are rarely interactive, enough. If it's going to tell me that
there's updates available, I want to see a list, not just a total
number. I want to click on items in that list, and find out what they
are. And I want to be able to click on some items and skip them. The
software install/update GUI tool on Ubuntu, annoying as it was, was far
better than the one on Fedora.
Just my 2 cents worth. I don't know which gui you are using but if I'm
using a gui tool I use Yumex, which provides all the capabilities you
are mentioning here by default. What is annoying for me is that doing
what you are asking for is its default mode on start up and I haven't
been able to find a way of change that default behavior.
regards,
Steve
In the terminal, you can see it working with the server (and notice when
it gets stuck part way, intervene, and kick it back into life), you can
see the downloads and scroll back through the display to see something
that might have gone out of view, you have far more options to use when
you need more control over what it's going to do (the GUIs, typically,
just give you total proceed and abort choices).
And, I usually turn off the notifications of updates being available,
since the only time I want to do in updates is when I'm not busy doing
other things; and when those moments come up, I'll do a manual check for
updates. The rest of the time, when I'm doing stuff with the computer,
such pop-up notices are a nuisance.
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