Yum Update

[R A Jon Hamelin]

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> On Mon, 2007-09-24 at 14:40 -0700, R A Jon Hamelin wrote:
>   
>> > Hi folks:
>> > 
>> > I have installed F7 on a laptop today and went to update via terminal 
>> > (su -c 'yum update'). I was shocked to see that yum was going to update 
>> > every package available, not just what I had installed. I have never 
>> > come across this before and wonder whether it is a bug. I use this 
>> > method to update my other Fedora boxes and have never noticed this issue 
>> > before. The laptop has a 17 GB hard drive and I want to conserve as much 
>> > space as possible.
>>     
>
> It depends on what you were looking at.  At first, yum displays all new
> packages that aren't in your database.  Since this is a new install,
> your database is empty so you'll see all the updates that are
> available.  Don't freak out over that.
>
> Later, it goes through your machine and eventually will display a table
> with the word "Updating:".  THOSE are what's going to be updated, not
> the first set of packages you saw.  That was just yum updating its
> database.  yum can be chatty!
>
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It was close to 1 GB, which really threw me. I downloaded yumex and gave 
that a shot, forgetting my last experience with yumex. Of course, 80% 
through, it locked, destroying the install. I think after the new 
install (again) I will wait for yum-updatesd.
Thanks much for the info.

Jon

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