yumming up down to for loop
Harry Putnam
reader at newsguy.com
Mon Sep 6 17:31:42 UTC 2004
seth vidal <skvidal at phy.duke.edu> writes:
>> I'm using a for loop with:
>> yum -y update $pkg
>> and slowly getting quite a few updated. Since the repo is on my
>> internal lan its not costing too much bandwidth but still, someway to
>> save that reparse on each loop would really speed it up.
>
> What problem is it that makes you put them all in a loop?
Delt with below, but do you have an idea as to the subject of my
post. Or just redirect to some other subject?
> You shouldn't need to do that.
>
> yum update should be working just fine in 2.1.3.
I used a number of exclusions and other tricks to do an update. All
failed with various problems involving xorg-x11 stuff (fonts)
And ended with errors. One of which I posted under message-id:
Message-ID: <m3isasdgct.fsf at newsguy.com>
There were numerous others of that nature and then a series of
`can't solve dependancy' endings involving xorg stuff.
The for loop is a hack yes. Should not be necessary yes...
But I got updated that way when other (more normal) attempts
failed. I bailed myself out that way in the past too. Using yum and
up2date. Seems like cutting down the scale helps either app do its
job.
This morning a straight update worked just fine. I had only one
package to update:
xorg-x11-font-utils
Somehow it involved 18 packages to update it since it involved a
number of obsoletes etc.
`yum --obsoletes xorg-x11-font-utils' worked as expected
Prior to updating 99% of what needed it with my for loop
`yum --obsoletes update'
would fail. Even with various excludes I've lost track of now.
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