I use Fedora 5. When I do a yum update to update all te packages on my system then packages are downloaded from the internet. When this is all finished then I expected all the packages te be updated automatically. This doesn't seem to happen.

When do a 'yum update' I first I get a lot of messages that packages are set to be updated. Then yum wants to download packages again. What is happening overhere?

......
---> Package mlocate.i386 0:0.14-0.fc5.1 set to be updated
---> Package libwnck.i386 0:2.14.2-1 set to be updated
--> Running transaction check
--> Processing Dependency: gstreamer-tools >= 0.10.4 for package: gstreamer
--> Restarting Dependency Resolution with new changes.
--> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait.
---> Package gstreamer-tools.i386 0:0.10.4-1 set to be updated
--> Running transaction check

Dependencies Resolved

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Package Arch Version Repository Size
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Installing:
bind-config i386 30:9.3.2-20.FC5 updates 51 k
replacing caching-nameserver.noarch 7.3-5.FC5

Updating:
GConf2 i386 2.14.0-1 updates 1.5 M
GConf2-devel i386 2.14.0-1 updates 192 k
NetworkManager i386 0.6.3-1.fc5 updates 381 k
NetworkManager-glib i386 0.6.3-1.fc5 updates 25 k

.....


Transaction Summary
=============================================================================
Install 2 Package(s)
Update 256 Package(s)
Remove 0 Package(s)
Total download size: 419 M
Is this ok [y/N]: n
Exiting on user Command
Complete!

What do you run first time (to download)? Where do you put downloaded packages?

Check that you have enough space left on the disk where the folder /var/cache/yum is situated. If you don't have enough space left, this will cause yum to exit without giving any reason in the terminal in the middle of package download (and not installing/updating anything and starting the download over where it left off last time).

Well, I just typed "yum update". I think the packages are stored in /var/cache.
I got 1.1Gb free disk space. Maybe this free space is not big enough. Indeed, I get no error message. Not so handy.

Maybe first time it just downloaded package headers?

I executed "yum clean all", then "yum update".

Now I got 579Mb free space left, it was 1.1Gb before I started "yum update". So files were downloaded.
There are packages in /var/cache/yum/updates/packages

These are the last lines of the output of the "yum update" command:

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authconfig-gtk-5.2.3-1 needs 33MB on the / filesystem', (9, '/', 34115584L)), ('installing package hplip-0.9.11-1.2 needs 35MB on the / filesystem', (9, '/', 36380672L)), ('installing package selinux-policy-targeted-2.2.43-4.fc5 needs 34MB on the / filesystem', (9, '/', 35557376L)), ('installing package nfs-utils-1.0.8-2.fc5 needs 35MB on the / filesystem', (9, '/', 35655680L)), ('installing package gnome-session-2.14.2-1.fc5.1 needs 36MB on the / filesystem', (9, '/', 36892672L)), ('installing package file-roller-2.14.3-1 needs 37MB on the / filesystem', (9, '/', 38629376L)), ('installing package mutt-1.4.2.1-6.3.fc5 needs 40MB on the / filesystem', (9, '/', 41197568L)), ('installing package frysk-0.0.1.2006.06.15.rh4-0.FC5 needs 41MB on the / filesystem', (9, '/', 42889216L)), ('installing package eel2-devel-2.14.1-1.fc5.1 needs 41MB on the / filesystem', (9, '/', 42885120L)), ('installing package NetworkManager-gnome-0.6.3-1.fc5 needs 41MB on the / filesystem', (9, '/', 42897408L)), ('installing package gnome-pilot-devel-2.0.13-7.fc5.6 needs 41MB on the / filesystem', (9, '/', 42897408L)), ('installing package gnome-panel-devel-2.14.2-1.fc5.1 needs 41MB on the / filesystem', (9, '/', 42889216L)), ('installing package gnome-desktop-devel-2.14.2-1 needs 42MB on the / filesystem', (9, '/', 43098112L)), ('installing package evolution-data-server-devel-1.6.2-1.fc5.1 needs 42MB on the / filesystem', (9, '/', 43282432L)), ('installing package mozilla-devel-1.7.13-1.1.fc5 needs 68MB on the / filesystem', (9, '/', 70488064L)), ('installing package yelp-2.14.2-1 needs 69MB on the / filesystem', (9, '/', 71704576L)), ('installing package gdm-2.14.9-1 needs 76MB on the / filesystem', (9, '/', 79302656L)), ('installing package evolution-webcal-2.4.1-3.4 needs 76MB on the / filesystem', (9, '/', 79597568L)), ('installing package eog-2.14.2-1.fc5.1 needs 78MB on the / filesystem', (9, '/', 80998400L)), ('installing package gnome-power-manager-2.14.3-1 needs 78MB on the / filesystem', (9, '/', 81747968L)), ('installing package gnome-system-monitor-2.14.1-1.fc5.1 needs 79MB on the / filesystem', (9, '/', 82825216L)), ('installing package gnome-terminal-2.14.2-1 needs 85MB on the / filesystem', (9, '/', 88166400L)), ('installing package gnopernicus-1.0.4-1.fc5.1 needs 89MB on the / filesystem', (9, '/', 92467200L)), ('installing package gnome-screensaver-2.14.2-1.fc5.1 needs 90MB on the / filesystem', (9, '/', 93622272L)), ('installing package gedit-2.14.3-1 needs 96MB on the / filesystem', (9, '/', 100081664L)), ('installing package gok-1.0.7-1 needs 98MB on the / filesystem', (9, '/', 102379520L)), ('installing package hal-gnome-0.5.7-3.fc5.2 needs 98MB on the / filesystem', (9, '/', 102379520L)), ('installing package hal-devel-0.5.7-3.fc5.2 needs 99MB on the / filesystem', (9, '/', 103469056L)), ('installing package hal-cups-utils-0.5.5-1.2.fc5.2 needs 99MB on the / filesystem', (9, '/', 103534592L)), ('installing package vnc-server-4.1.1-39.fc5 needs 99MB on the / filesystem', (9, '/', 103534592L)), ('installing package xorg-x11-xfs-1.0.1-4.FC5.0 needs 99MB on the / filesystem', (9, '/', 103550976L)), ('installing package pirut-1.0.3-0.fc5 needs 100MB on the / filesystem', (9, '/', 103919616L)), ('installing package system-config-date-1.8.3-0.fc5.1 needs 102MB on the / filesystem', (9, '/', 106729472L)), ('installing package system-config-securitylevel-1.6.16-2 needs 102MB on the / filesystem', (9, '/', 106749952L)), ('installing package texinfo-4.8-9.2.fc5.1 needs 104MB on the / filesystem', (9, '/', 108179456L)), ('installing package at-spi-devel-1.7.7-1.fc5.2 needs 104MB on the / filesystem', (9, '/', 108281856L)), ('installing package system-config-printer-gui-0.6.151.7-1 needs 104MB on the / filesystem', (9, '/', 108281856L)), ('installing package php-pear-1.4.9-1 needs 104MB on the / filesystem', (9, '/', 108331008L)), ('installing package samba-3.0.22-1.fc5 needs 129MB on the / filesystem', (9, '/', 134635520L)), ('installing package samba-client-3.0.22-1.fc5 needs 129MB on the / filesystem', (9, '/', 134647808L)), ('installing package fetchmail-6.3.4-0.fc5.1 needs 130MB on the / filesystem', (9, '/', 135688192L)), ('installing package gnome-user-share-0.10-1.fc5.1 needs 130MB on the / filesystem', (9, '/', 135835648L)), ('installing package autofs-4.1.4-29 needs 131MB on the / filesystem', (9, '/', 136679424L)), ('installing package readahead-1.2-2 needs 131MB on the / filesystem', (9, '/', 136712192L)), ('installing package rhgb-0.16.3-1.fc5.1 needs 131MB on the / filesystem', (9, '/', 137031680L)), ('installing package mod_ssl-2.2.2-1.0 needs 131MB on the / filesystem', (9, '/', 137031680L)), ('installing package system-config-lvm-1.0.18-1.2.FC5 needs 133MB on the / filesystem', (9, '/', 138571776L)), ('installing package libgtop2-devel-2.14.1-1.fc5.1 needs 133MB on the / filesystem', (9, '/', 138571776L)), ('installing package logwatch-7.2.1-1.fc5 needs 133MB on the / filesystem', (9, '/', 138629120L)), ('installing package gtk-doc-1.6-1.fc5.1 needs 133MB on the / filesystem', (9, '/', 138797056L)), ('installing package squid-2.5.STABLE14-2.FC5 needs 134MB on the / filesystem', (9, '/', 140308480L)), ('installing package alsa-utils-1.0.11-4.rc2 needs 134MB on the / filesystem', (9, '/', 140398592L)), ('installing package alsa-lib-devel-1.0.11-4.rc2 needs 143MB on the / filesystem', (9, '/', 149753856L)), ('installing package newt-devel-0.52.2-6 needs 143MB on the / filesystem', (9, '/', 149831680L)), ('installing package nscd-2.4-8 needs 143MB on the / filesystem', (9, '/', 149835776L)), ('installing package python-devel-2.4.3-8.FC5 needs 143MB on the / filesystem', (9, '/', 149856256L)), ('installing package pyorbit-2.14.0-1 needs 143MB on the / filesystem', (9, '/', 149893120L)), ('installing package smartmontools-5.36-fc5.1 needs 144MB on the / filesystem', (9, '/', 150171648L)), ('installing package tcsh-6.14-6.fc5.1 needs 144MB on the / filesystem', (9, '/', 150958080L)), ('installing package man-1.6c-2.fc5 needs 145MB on the / filesystem', (9, '/', 151134208L)), ('installing package gstreamer-0.10.4-1 needs 146MB on the / filesystem', (9, '/', 152403968L)), ('installing package gstreamer-plugins-base-0.10.5-1 needs 146MB on the / filesystem', (9, '/', 152571904L)), ('installing package gnome-media-2.14.2-1 needs 149MB on the / filesystem', (9, '/', 155213824L)), ('installing package gnome-applets-2.14.2-1.fc5.1 needs 156MB on the / filesystem', (9, '/', 162783232L))]

Has anyone got an idea why "yum update" is not working? Lack of space on my harddrive?