Some problems getting started

Satish Balay balay at fastmail.fm
Wed Apr 7 21:13:29 UTC 2004


> On Wed, 2004-04-07 at 12:11, William Hooper wrote:

> > As others have suggested:
> > Installing everything isn't a good starting point
> > Yum is a more reliable after packages have been upgraded from their
> > original version.

Not necessarily. You can:

 - modify the source list - to modify yum behavior (if you don't want
   to work with certain repositories - like updates)

 - use local/cache-only mode - where it doesn't try to sync to the
   latest .hdr database.

For eg:

yum -C remove package

Satish





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