On Fri, Jan 27, 2017 at 06:05:54PM +0100, Leon Fauster wrote:
Am 27.01.2017 um 17:27 schrieb m.roth@5-cent.us:
Johnny Hughes wrote:
On 01/27/2017 09:19 AM, Jon LaBadie wrote:
With a large update to be made, eg. the 900 package one I questioned yesterday, are there any suggestions to avoid possible complications?
Two examples, I'd like to know of others too:
I'm not running the most recently installed kernel, I assume I should reboot to that.
I normally have a graphical environment running. Would it be better to: a) shutdown X and update from a straight CLI environment b) logout from the GUI and update from a vt CLI c) update from a GUI login as root or d) doesn't matter, do as normal -- from an ssh login, "sudo yum update"?
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In such scenario (xxx packages to update) I normally split the update command into
# yum clean all # yum update glibc* rpm* yum* # yum update # reboot
The update to glibc*, wouldn't that replace the current versions on disk? If so, wouldn't there be a problem if one had to reboot before the yum update could run or complete. Or do applications not need specific glibc versions but only version X or newer.
Jon