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[Christopher A. Williams]

On Mon, 2006-02-13 at 23:37 -0500, Doug Fordham wrote:

> >> Transaction Summary
> >> =============================================================================
> >> Install      7 Package(s)
> >> Update    1243 Package(s)
> >> Remove       0 Package(s)
> >> Total download size: 1.5 G
> >> Is this ok [y/N]:
> >>     
> >
> > Woah!
> >
> >   
> >> OK, do I dare?
> >>     
> >
> > Sure - it is a development machine after all, right? :)
> >
> >   
> >> Has anyone tried this massive update?  Any good/bad reports?
> >> 
> >> I saw a couple reports over the weekend of failures to start X.  Not sure
> >> I want to try that experiment.
> >>     
> >
> > Mine still works - and that's before any updates today. So I'd say it may
> > not be related. You never know though - that's what makes the devel stuff
> > so fun :)
> >
> >   
> ...my total download was just under a "gig", but then I am running a 
> mostly stock test machine with few additions...avahi & hal daemons 
> failed on first reboot, but a "chcon -t system_dbusd_exec_t 
> /bin/dbus-daemon" and subsequent reboot squared that away...

My update wound up being a 1.2GB download. I needed 2 tries to get
everything downloaded and then it took almost as long to install the
updates as it did to load the OS from scratch.

That said, after booting the new kernel, everything appears to be
working just fine...!

Cheers,

Chris

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