On 31/08/06, chrism@imntv.com chrism@imntv.com 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.