yum upgrade

[Les Mikesell]

On Sat, 2006-05-13 at 16:45, Karl Larsen wrote:
> >>>       
> >> Live and learn. A fresh install is faster.
> >>     
> > 	Yes I was going to say that I have a fresh install as of yesterday! But it needed a yum fix right out of the box.
> >   
> 
> > But it won't get you an up to date FC4.  Normally you would
> > do the updates over a period of many months so it wouldn't
> > seem so bad.  The bad part is living with the bugs from
> > a new version before the fixes are out.
> >
> >   
>     Yes and it has me thinking I want to backup my WHOLE system. This is 
> because I do not want to have to redo this upgrade thing. I just checked 
> and the whole thing is less than 10 GB. So I will back the whole thing 
> up to my external 10 GB hard drive.

Note that the downloaded update packages remain under /var/cache/yum
even after they are installed.  If you have other systems you
can copy them in place so you don't have to download again or
if you don't have other systems you can 'yum clean all' to remove
them and save space.

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  Les Mikesell
   lesmikesell at gmail.com