Updating methods

Patrick O'Callaghan pocallaghan at gmail.com
Sat Aug 15 19:11:15 UTC 2009


On Sat, 2009-08-15 at 18:33 +0000, Beartooth wrote:
> I've just gone back to plain ssh 
> to my userid on her machine, then su - , then yum clean all followed
> by yum update.

Why the "yum clean all"? It's almost never necessary to do this unless
your yum database is screwed up. All your doing is wasting time
downloading stuff again.

poc




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