On Thu, 2005-07-14 at 10:28, Gene Heskett wrote: > >Usually I just do: "yum update" and if the list it shows includes > > yum or rpm I cancel and just get those first, then repeat for the > > rest of the packages. > > > > Chuckle, seems like the ideal way to do it, but when the package list > is longer than the shells scrollback?????? The worst that will happen if you say yum update rpm yum as a separate first step is that you waste some time while it tells you that you already have the latest versions. > Also if yum destroys itself, at least the rest of the system is > spared. :( Don't laugh Mike, its done that here 6 times on 2 > different machines and installs now. Sometimes I've been able to 'apt-get update; apt-get upgrade' to fix a yum-induced problem and sometimes I've had to do the opposite. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx
