Fedora Update RPMs

[Browder, Tom]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com 
> [mailto:fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of James Wilkinson
> Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 2004 5:43 PM
> Subject: Re: Fedora Update RPMs
> > I'm not sure why you're doing it manually, in any case. 
> There are much 
> > easier ways, like yum or up2date.
> 
> Neither of them work well over sneakernet.

Amen, brother.

> Incidentally, my yum cache directory currently holds over 1 
> GB of updates!

Yup.

> Often (especially if there have beeen multiple updates to 
> Open Office) the updates directory will exceed the size of a 
> CD, so you really will want to keep out RPMs that you know 
> you won't need to use (like older Open Office updates...)

Ayup.

Tom Browder