On 31/08/06, chrism at imntv.com <chrism at imntv.com> wrote: > 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? Just yum update a few packages at a time, that way if the process hangs you only have a handful of packages to clean up after rather than dozens or more. So do # yum check-update Look at the list then maybe do... # yum update package1 package2 package3 package4 Yum will sort out the first 4 packages in the list and their dependencies, then repeat until done. Will.