Yum Update

[Rick Stevens]

On Mon, 2007-09-24 at 14:40 -0700, R A Jon Hamelin wrote:
> Hi folks:
> 
> I have installed F7 on a laptop today and went to update via terminal 
> (su -c 'yum update'). I was shocked to see that yum was going to update 
> every package available, not just what I had installed. I have never 
> come across this before and wonder whether it is a bug. I use this 
> method to update my other Fedora boxes and have never noticed this issue 
> before. The laptop has a 17 GB hard drive and I want to conserve as much 
> space as possible.

It depends on what you were looking at.  At first, yum displays all new
packages that aren't in your database.  Since this is a new install,
your database is empty so you'll see all the updates that are
available.  Don't freak out over that.

Later, it goes through your machine and eventually will display a table
with the word "Updating:".  THOSE are what's going to be updated, not
the first set of packages you saw.  That was just yum updating its
database.  yum can be chatty!

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