yum problems

[Gertjan Vinkesteijn]

Homer wrote:

>	I went to update my laptop last night with yum... As usual, it's behind
>in updates, as it doesn't stay on 24/7... There was a bunch of them.. It
>ended up filling my file system during the install, after it ran all of
>it's tests.. I thought it checked free space after download, before the
>actual updates? I'll probably re-install at this point, because every
>time I try messing with it now, it fails with failed dependencies.. 
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I have a symlink like
# mv /var/cache/yum /var/cache/yum.old
# mkdir /var/cache/yum
# cd /var/cache/yum
# mkdir -p /home/var/cache   //whereever you have place enough
# ln -s /home/var/cache /var/yum /home/var/cache/yum
# cd /var/cache/yum.old
# find . | cpio -dumpv /home/var/cache

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