On Sun, 28 Dec 2003 22:06:22 -0600 Kathy Wills <kathywills@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > David Relson wrote: > > > Kathy, > > > >Using "yum -C list installed" will avoid the server checking. Since > >you're interested in what's present, not what's available, using the > >local information cache is appropriate. > > > >David > > > > > Thanks, > > I'll use your and Seth's suggestions. It really looks like I'm going > to like this a lot better than urpmi. It will be ever better in about > a week when I get my satellite modem and can get away from this 56k > dial-up. I've found urpmi quite useful. I had to upgrade a number of packages just to meet yum's requirements. After that, "yum upgrade" did load a bundle of 237 packages to complete the Mandrake 9.1 to 9.2 transition. That was pretty slick. In the 3 weeks since, "yum check-update" hasn't found anything to do :-(
