Les Mikesell spake the following on 4/12/2006 9:27 AM: > 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? > AFAIK - I don't think the current yum will continue if it doesn't complete the download of packages. -- MailScanner is like deodorant... You hope everybody uses it, and you notice quickly if they don't!!!!