[Yum] Running Yum Remotely

[Chris Betti]

Greg Knaddison wrote:

>My best solutions for this when I encountered it were
>1)just do a couple packages at a time
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Even with one package, the pre-install stuff takes forever. Swapping is 
the only thing going on for a long, long time.

>2)RAM is cheaper than the 30 minutes it will take you to figure out a solution
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The motherboard is maxed out unfortunately.

>3)update to a more modern version of yum like 2.4
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>I believe that the pickling that yum used to do was RAM intensive and
>that the new sqlite will be easier to do on RAM-hungry machines.
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Thanks Greg, I will try 2.4. I'll update yum tonight : )

- Chris