On Thu, 2008-07-10 at 19:38 +0100, Ned Slider wrote: > In addition, maybe some advice/tips to minimise the risk of performing a > large update. I'm thinking of things like performing updates in a screen > session when remotely updating over an ssh login in case the ssh > connection gets lost mid-update. Also, I tend to perform updates in > smaller chunks like: > > manually install new kernel packages > yum update yum\* rpm\* > yum update open\* > yum update gnome\* kde\* xorg\* > etc If you're worried in big updates about a session dropping out, use screen. The smaller updates are _fine_ but screen is probably easier. > Plus any other advice relevant to the update procedure - how many times > did people ask the difference between 'yum upgrade' and 'yum update', > and which they should use :) There is no difference, whatsoever, anymore. Ignore it. -sv