On Sat, Oct 22, 2005 at 12:22:01PM -0500, Fikret Skrgic wrote: > I think that it is completely unnecessary to stop execution if one of > repositories is temporarily unavailable. Why not just skip it and go on > to the next one, like apt does. This has come up more than couple of times. Look here: http://wiki.linux.duke.edu/YumTodont > One more thing. I find it also unnecessary for yum to refresh the lists > of packages prior to any action. If I try something and it goes wrong or > I remember that I have to install something else after a successful > install, there is no need to refresh the lists of packages. They are > already up2date. Yum should only do a refresh if specifically asked to > do so, like apt does. These refreshes can be an annoyingly lengthy > operations on older hardware. Yum should keep information in a database, > so that it is available without a refresh. Does the "-C" option meet your needs? -Michael -- Michael D. Stenner mstenner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ECE Department and Optical Sciences Center 520-626-1619 University of Arizona ECE 524G
