Rich Burroughs wrote (about downloading updates from a Fedora mirror): > I'm not sure why you're doing it manually, in any case. There are much > easier ways, like yum or up2date. Neither of them work well over sneakernet. With the amount of updates we've been getting, it's practically impossible to keep up to date over dial-up, especially metered dial-up. One way around this is to download to CD at somewhere which does have the bandwidth, and then update from that. I used to do that regularly until I got broadband at home (and I kept a good firewall, of course). Incidentally, my yum cache directory currently holds over 1 GB of updates! Often (especially if there have beeen multiple updates to Open Office) the updates directory will exceed the size of a CD, so you really will want to keep out RPMs that you know you won't need to use (like older Open Office updates...) Hope this helps, James. -- E-mail address: james | When the revolution comes, we'll need a longer wall. @westexe.demon.co.uk | -- Tom De Mulder
