On Sat, 15 Aug 2009 14:41:15 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Sat, 2009-08-15 at 18:33 +0000, I Beartooth wrote: >> I've just gone back to plain ssh >> to my userid on her machine, then su - , then yum clean all followed by >> yum update. > > Why the "yum clean all"? It's almost never necessary to do this unless > your yum database is screwed up. All your doing is wasting time > downloading stuff again. Really? I've been doing it so long I don't even remember where I picked it up. Once or twice something seemed to work better after that command, so I made a habit of it. Did it use to help more often? I've been around longer than yum -- and still mean what my .sig says .... -- Beartooth Staffwright, Neo-Redneck Not Quite Clueless Power User I have precious (very precious!) little idea where up is. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
