On Tue, 22 Jan 2008 15:53:03 -0600 Les Mikesell <lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > If you just want to babysit the system during the actual package > installs but not the downloading you can: > > yum install yum-downloadonly (unless this has changed in recent > versions), then > yum --downloadonly update (which you can mostly ignore until it > completes), then the final > yum update > will proceed quickly since it already has the packages. Yea, I have this in cron (just the download part) so when I'm ready to actually update, the packages are already there. I even go one step farther and chroot to each of my other fedora alternate boot filesystems and run the download for all of them in the same cron job - that way the next time I happen to boot one of the alternate systems, I can run update quick and not have to wait for downloads.
