On 31/08/06, chrism@xxxxxxxxx <chrism@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Will McDonald wrote: > I don't know if there's any easy way to avoid this, but you can > mitigate the problem by batching your yum updates into smaller chunks > which will, if the futext problem halts the update, leave you with a > less hosed system. :) I don't understand what you mean when you say "batch yum updates into smaller chunks". I usually just do a "yum update", eyeball the packages that it thinks I need, then hit ENTER to agree to the update. What does this "batching" involve?
Just yum update a few packages at a time, that way if the process hangs you only have a handful of packages to clean up after rather than dozens or more. So do # yum check-update Look at the list then maybe do... # yum update package1 package2 package3 package4 Yum will sort out the first 4 packages in the list and their dependencies, then repeat until done. Will. _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
