too much packages to up2date one time ??

[Craig White]

On Sun, 2005-03-27 at 15:41 +0800, Yue Feng wrote:
> when i update my fc3 by up2date, there are totally 309 packages can be updated.
> if I choose "select all" to update all of them in one time,it hangs on
> "Testing package set / solving RPM inter-dependencies" dialog. But if
> i choose some of the packages manually , it does work.
> 
> Is there any limit on the maximum number of packages to update one
> time? maybe 128 or 256?
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it takes a LOT longer to test the package set and solve RPM inter-
dependencies for 309 packages than it does for 1 package and it's likely
that your problem is one of a lack of patience.

Craig