[CentOS] Update of CentOS 4.0 to 4.3

Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com
Wed Apr 12 16:27:24 UTC 2006


On Wed, 2006-04-12 at 08:40, Johnny Hughes wrote:

> That said, IF one has inconsistent internet connectivity, they should
> definitely do large updates in chunks ... as a yum (and rpm) can cause
> duplicate packages if it is interrupted after the install stage and
> before the cleanup stage.

With Centos 3.x I normally do a 'yum --download-only update'
to pull a local copy first but the current version of
yum doesn't have that option.  Do you really have to
rsync the whole repository now to be sure you can get
a couple of updates in a transaction?

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  Les Mikesell
   lesmikesell at gmail.com





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