Re: battery botched f11 to f12 upgrade (macppc-ibookG4)

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On Thu, 2010-06-10 at 07:08 -0400, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
> I've never understood the appeal of preupgrade. I have a bunch of
> machines. It's faster for me to torrent a DVD image once. Takes very
> little time, then I use it to upgrade each machine, then let it update
> itself with the few bits from Everything that's not on the DVD cut.
>  
> Seems to me it's going to take much longer to have every machine
> download the individual packages, separately once for each machine.

And downloading the updates through a caching proxy speeds up the
post-install updating, no end.  I found that presetting the clients to
use one particular mirror, so proxying works, to be simpler than trying
to set up and manage a local repo.

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[tim@localhost ~]$ uname -r
2.6.27.25-78.2.56.fc9.i686

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