> after a while, not surprisingly, /var ran out of space and the yum > update aborted. given that it appears that nothing was updated, i'm > assuming that, when doing an update, *all* updateable RPMs must be > downloaded successfully before the actual update will start, right? yep. I want to gpg/md5 check the rpms before starting the transaction. > i notice that you can specify a different cache directory in yum.conf > with "cachedir", but there's no command-line option for that, right? > this is obviously not hard to work around, i just wanted to make sure > i knew all of my options and there wasn't an obscure yum feature that > would beat this. no command line directive for it, no. When I was looking at the config options it didn't seem like the best idea to make EVERYTHING a command line option - it just clutters the docs and makes the command line painful sometimes. If it isn't listed in yum --help then it's not a command line option. I think the --help usage has been kept fairly well updated. -sv
