On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 11:54 AM, Tris Hoar <trishoar at bgfl.org> wrote: > On 25/11/2010 16:44, Johan Scheepers wrote: >> Good day, >> >> New to centos, >> New install . >> Using - Software updater >> While updating - downloading 73 updates there was a break in the download. >> The break happened close to the end. >> Now when using software updater again will it start all over again? >> Go on where the break happened? >> Could not find on google this issue >> Kindly some advice please. >> Thanks, Regards >> Johan >> >> _______________________________________________ >> CentOS mailing list >> CentOS at centos.org >> http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >> >> ************************************************************* >> This message has been checked for viruses by the >> Birmingham Grid for Learning. For guidance on good >> e-mail practice, e-mail viruses and hoaxes please visit: >> http://www.bgfl.org/emailaup >> ************************************************************* >> >> >> > Hi Johan, > > Yum should just re-download the required packages. > As Yum downloads data it stores it in /var/cache/yum/**repo** (where > repo is a subfolder for each repository) > If you wish to remove this cache you can run something like > yum clean all. If the update is done before material starts expiring. But yes, the old packages will stick around for a while if not successfully installed. It's often helpful with that many updates and a remote upstream Yum server to pick and update a few of the bulkier packages first, such as glibc, and update the rest on the next go-around.