[CentOS] Upgrade 4.3 to 4.4 appeared to die half-way through

chrism at imntv.com chrism at imntv.com
Thu Aug 31 15:44:05 UTC 2006


Will McDonald wrote:
> I don't know if there's any easy way to avoid this, but you can
> mitigate the problem by batching your yum updates into smaller chunks
> which will, if the futext problem halts the update, leave you with a
> less hosed system. :)

I don't understand what you mean when you say "batch yum updates into 
smaller chunks".  I usually just do a "yum update", eyeball the packages 
that it thinks I need, then hit ENTER to agree to the update.  What does 
this "batching" involve?

Cheers,




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