yumming up down to for loop

[seth vidal]

On Sun, 2004-09-05 at 09:13 -0500, Harry Putnam wrote:
> I'm having so much trouble getting updated with yum that I've now
> resorted to marching lists of updates produced by yum thru a for loop
> where I can cancel errors and go on to next.
> 
> A big slowdown is rereading the repmod.xml data (or what ever) that is
> read at the start of each update.
> 
> I'm using a for loop with:
>     yum -y update $pkg
> and slowly getting quite a few updated.  Since the repo is on my
> internal lan its not costing too much bandwidth but still, someway to
> save that reparse on each loop would really speed it up. 

What problem is it that makes you put them all in a loop?

You shouldn't need to do that.

yum update should be working just fine in 2.1.3.

-sv