[Yum] Manual Download for Yum

[Tony Hill]

Some of us have had the same problem with Yum freezing up - we've
covered that in another thread on this list.

Taking your suggestion last night,  I ran Yum to get a list of the
recent updates and when (as usual) it froze while downloading a large
file (Open Office updates are always a killer), I did a CTRL-C and then
I used my gFTP client to download the rest of the files.

I moved them into 

/var/cache/yum/updates-released/packages

restarted Yum and it completed the update all by itself using the cached
files.

Thanks for the idea !

Tony


On Sat, 2004-11-13 at 20:43, Ivan wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I was doing the first update using yum 1.0 and had encounter several
> hang up in the through those mirror sit. Sometime downloading a update
> will take a long time even freeze up. So I was thinking maybe I can
> manually download those update and leave it in the cache folder so that
> it will not have to download it from the sit that will cause to freeze
> up. Does anybody know that if that will work?
> 
> Ivan
> 
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