On Thursday 14 July 2005 11:28, Gene Heskett wrote: >On Thursday 14 July 2005 10:44, Les Mikesell wrote: >>On Thu, 2005-07-14 at 06:09, Gene Heskett wrote: >>> Due to the above DSA key error it apparently didn't >>> install/update all 279 of the updates it had counted. >>> >>> Anyway, I fired off another run of 'yum -y update' thinking maybe >>> that would self heal as mirrors got updated. >> >>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?????? > >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. > Make that 7 times, it just ate the system again. >>-- >> Les Mikesell >> lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx > >-- >Cheers, Gene >"There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: > soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." >-Ed Howdershelt (Author) >99.35% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly >Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above >message by Gene Heskett are: >Copyright 2005 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) 99.35% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2005 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.