2009/10/25 Gordon Messmer <yinyang at eburg.com>: > On 10/23/2009 06:10 PM, Jonathan Moore wrote: >> >> What I was really looking for was a little more detail on exactly what >> I *must* have from the mirror to successfully upgrade. >> > > If you want to download the minimum number of packages, the easiest > answer is: use a proxy server. > > export http_proxy=http://proxy.foo.com:8888 > yum upgrade > I'm on the same situation and I use IntelligentMirror and squid to cache all the rpm packages regardless of the mirror. Also I set up the mirror line on the /etc/yum.conf One word of warning if you want to go to the same route: you have to setup 2 different mirrors for x86_64 and i386 arch., because there are i386 packages built for the x86_64 platform that have the same name but different checksum/content than the one for i386. HTH Lorenzo