RHN total size of out of date packages?

Paul Gear paul at gear.dyndns.org
Thu Oct 9 22:03:20 UTC 2003


Adrian Likins wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 10, 2003 at 06:45:11AM +1000, Paul Gear wrote:
> 
>>Hi folks,
>>
>>Can anyone point me to a sensible way to find out the total size of the
>>updates applicable to my system?  I have installed Fedora Core Test 2,
>>registered with RHN, subscribed to the updates channel, and found all of
>>the relevant packages (138 in all), but i'd really like to know how big
>>they are before i download and apply them...
>>-- 
> 
> 	
> 	gui or commandline? gui should show the package size info
> if it's available. 
> 
> 	commandline doesn't atm, though thats more or less planned
> at some point (at very least, a "summary" printed out before it
> starts downloading)

RHN web site and command line was where i was looking.  Didn't think to
try the GUI - thanks.
-- 
Paul
http://paulgear.webhop.net

A: Because we read from top to bottom, left to right.
Q: Why should i start my reply below the quoted text?
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