Updating methods

Beartooth beartooth at comcast.net
Sat Aug 15 20:37:04 UTC 2009


On Sat, 15 Aug 2009 14:41:15 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:

> On Sat, 2009-08-15 at 18:33 +0000, I Beartooth wrote:
>> I've just gone back to plain ssh
>> to my userid on her machine, then su - , then yum clean all followed by
>> yum update.
> 
> Why the "yum clean all"? It's almost never necessary to do this unless
> your yum database is screwed up. All your doing is wasting time
> downloading stuff again.

	Really? I've been doing it so long I don't even remember where I 
picked it up. Once or twice something seemed to work better after that 
command, so I made a habit of it. Did it use to help more often? I've 
been around longer than yum -- and still mean what my .sig says ....

-- 
Beartooth Staffwright, Neo-Redneck Not Quite Clueless Power User
I have precious (very precious!) little idea where up is.





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