12 Apr
2006
12 Apr
'06
6:27 p.m.
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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