Fedora Update RPMs

[Rich Burroughs]

Browder, Tom wrote:
>>>I'm not sure why you're doing it manually, in any case. 
>>
>>There are much 
>>
>>>easier ways, like yum or up2date.
>>
>>Neither of them work well over sneakernet.
> 
> Amen, brother.

That's not the reason you gave before, Tom, you said you had problems 
with yum. Bernd asked you what they were and you didn't reply. If you 
were to ask about the problems here I'm sure someone could help you.

Neither yum or up2date are that hard to use. With up2date it will show 
you a list of available updates and you can just check the boxes for the 
ones you want. It doesn't get much easier than that.

As for sneakernet, if you're talking about burning CDs then just burn 
one with the RPMS you need. Again, they all have version numbers, if you 
  see two RPMS for the same program then use the newer version.

I can't see why that would be a big enough deal to justify modifying the 
directory structure.

>>Incidentally, my yum cache directory currently holds over 1 
>>GB of updates!
> 
> Yup.

You don't have to leave a gig of updates stitting around to use yum, 
that's not required. Look at the man page:

http://linuxcommand.org/man_pages/yum8.html

   yum clean packages

or

   yum clean all

And you can use up2date without saving the packages after they are 
installed.

Tom, I have a feeling your problems with yum are probably due to you 
never really learning to use it correctly. You would do yourself a favor 
to invest the time to do that, it's a great tool.

Also, up2date is very simple to use, and it's been around for a long time.


Rich