[CentOS] Re: Update of CentOS 4.0 to 4.3

Les Mikesell spake the following on 4/12/2006 9:27 AM:

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

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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?

AFAIK - I don't think the current yum will continue if it doesn't complete the download of packages.