On Thu, 2005-07-14 at 10:28, Gene Heskett wrote:
Usually I just do: "yum update" and if the list it shows includes yum or rpm I cancel and just get those first, then repeat for the rest of the packages.
Chuckle, seems like the ideal way to do it, but when the package list is longer than the shells scrollback??????
The worst that will happen if you say yum update rpm yum as a separate first step is that you waste some time while it tells you that you already have the latest versions.
Also if yum destroys itself, at least the rest of the system is spared. :( Don't laugh Mike, its done that here 6 times on 2 different machines and installs now.
Sometimes I've been able to 'apt-get update; apt-get upgrade' to fix a yum-induced problem and sometimes I've had to do the opposite.