Updating methods

[Tim]

Patrick O'Callaghan:
>> 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.

Beartooth:
> 	Really? I've been doing it so long I don't even remember where I 
> picked it up.

Probably from some dumb advice on this list.  I keep seeing people
stupidly say do "yum clean all" to solve some problem.  I say
"stupidly," because they offer the advice without good reason, or when
it's got absolutely nothing to do with the problem.

It's the same as Windows users blindly doing reboot & reinstall.  Hoping
that for some strange reason, doing the exact same thing over and over
will generate a different result.


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[tim at localhost ~]$ uname -r
2.6.27.25-78.2.56.fc9.i686

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