On Mon, 2007-09-24 at 11:45 +0200, Jochen Schlick wrote: > Hi, I have a laptop where rawhide is installed since the days > of Fedora Core 1. It has only 256MB ram so updating using yum > was always like a lame duck but nowadays it's really a crap. This might not help, but if you'd like to try something I've attached some python code which calls yum and "iterativlely updates". This might make it be small enough that it isn't living in swap, or at least not as badly. Let me know how it goes. -- James Antill <james.antill@xxxxxxxxxx> Red Hat
#! /usr/bin/python -tt
# Copyright 2007 Red Hat
# Author: James Antill <jantill@xxxxxxxxxx>
import os
import sys
import yum
from yum.update_md import UpdateMetadata
def current_updates():
y = yum.YumBase()
y.localPackages = []
y.updates = []
y.doConfigSetup(init_plugins=False)
return y.doPackageLists('updates')
ygh = current_updates()
sec_only = False
if len(sys.argv) == 2:
if sys.argv[1] == "security":
sec_only = True
needsReboot = False
repos = []
if sec_only:
upmd = UpdateMetadata()
for i in ygh.updates:
if i.repo not in repos:
repos.append(i.repo)
for r in repos:
try: # attempt to grab the updateinfo.xml.gz from the repodata
upmd.add(r)
except yum.Errors.RepoMDError:
pass # No metadata found for this repo
# Walk our list of updates trying to do them one at a time
my_updates = ygh.updates[:]
pkg = None
while my_updates:
if pkg in ygh.updates:
print >>sys.stderr, " Error: Failed to update:", pkg
pkg = my_updates.pop(0)
if pkg not in ygh.updates:
pkg = None
continue
md = True
if sec_only:
md = upmd.get_notice((pkg.name, pkg.ver, pkg.rel))
if md:
if sec_only:
md = md.get_metadata()
if md['type'] != 'security':
pkg = None
continue
print "Updating:", pkg
os.system("yum update -d 0 -y %s" % pkg.name)
ygh = current_updates()
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