On Mon, 2007-09-24 at 14:40 -0700, R A Jon Hamelin wrote:
> Hi folks:
>
> I have installed F7 on a laptop today and went to update via terminal
> (su -c 'yum update'). I was shocked to see that yum was going to update
> every package available, not just what I had installed. I have never
> come across this before and wonder whether it is a bug. I use this
> method to update my other Fedora boxes and have never noticed this issue
> before. The laptop has a 17 GB hard drive and I want to conserve as much
> space as possible.
It depends on what you were looking at. At first, yum displays all new
packages that aren't in your database. Since this is a new install,
your database is empty so you'll see all the updates that are
available. Don't freak out over that.
Later, it goes through your machine and eventually will display a table
with the word "Updating:". THOSE are what's going to be updated, not
the first set of packages you saw. That was just yum updating its
database. yum can be chatty!
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It was close to 1 GB, which really threw me. I downloaded yumex and gave
that a shot, forgetting my last experience with yumex. Of course, 80%
through, it locked, destroying the install. I think after the new
install (again) I will wait for yum-updatesd.
Thanks much for the info.
Jon
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