[Yum] ok, so how come "yum update" doesn't?

[seth vidal]

On Thu, 2003-10-23 at 20:33, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> On Thu, 23 Oct 2003, seth vidal wrote:
> 
> > > you're right, i was still officially 0.94, which does not have a yum 2.0.4
> > > version in its repository.
> > 
> > so this is on 7.x or 8.0?
> > 
> > That branch is not a good place to be 'learning about yum'.
> 
> my version of RH?  it's the second beta of severn.  not the most recent
> test release but the one just prior to that.  i'm not sure i know what 
> you're asking here.  7.x or 8.0 of what?

You're running yum 0.94 on severn test2?

how? Why?

run rpm -q yum, just to make sure you know what you're running.



> ouch.  i guess i never tried to upgrade that much via "rpm" all at once,
> to the point where i'd get an "out of space" error.    but doesn't that 
> mean that the nightly yum.cron update could fail for the same reason if
> it's running for the very first time and finds it has to update hundreds
> of packages?

if you have that little disk space, yes.


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