Yum Update Madness

meslick · #1 15th December 2005, 11:06 AM

I just did a yum update on my FC4 system. It d/led 270 Megs and everything was cool. I rebooted. But then just to see how nice and up to date my system was I did yum update again. And it had 770 Megs of Openoffice stuff, and more... madness

Does FC4 update in waves?

and why are updates in the gigabytes?

Teak

tangotiger · #2 15th December 2005, 11:49 AM

Never got that problem or having gigabyte d/l before (the first time, understandbly since i got on fc4 late and it was about 200 over megs).

But I do believe that if you installed hellotta languages in openoffice, you're updating a hellotta stuff everytime there's a version change.

Jman · #3 19th December 2005, 03:38 AM

Download servers are somewhat out of sync with each other, but not usually 500 MB out of sync with each other. (It's being worked on.)

Can you figure out from the logs in /var/log/yum.log what got updated when?

pparks1 · #4 19th December 2005, 04:19 AM

meslick,

That sure doesn't sound right to me. I've never had to download anything that large before. However, I typically load the very minimum that I need and only add packages that are required by the applications that I run.

When you did your install, did you pick an option or do custom? Did you by any chance tell it to load everything?

nlkrio · #5 19th December 2005, 01:19 PM

I am very satisfied with yum,your problem is probably caused by not syncronized repos(servers).