resumable yum update

itstootuff · 10-30-2008, 03:50 AM

hey

i am trying to update my fedora 9. The GUI updater shows it has 59 bugs. Somewhere in some forum someone suggested to update through yum. (yum update).
I have to download huge amount of data but i have frequent network outage. Is there a way that yum can resume its update.. or some other linux updater that works that way

thanks

billymayday · 10-30-2008, 04:04 AM

Typically, if yum has already downloaded rpms it appears to go through the whole process again, but won't re-download those already downloaded. That's my experience anyway.

cuco76 · 10-30-2008, 04:20 PM

You could try to update from one repo at a time. This could limit the amount of packages that are installed at a time. Once you update one repo go back and add the others one, one at a time.

If you open up /etc/yum.repos.d you should find a few .repo files. I would definitely make sure you keep track of the ones you disable so you don't re-enable any ones you don't need. In each repo file you will see something like this:

Code:

[updates-newkey]
name=Fedora $releasever - $basearch - Updates Newkey
failovermethod=priority
#baseurl=http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/updates/$releasever/$basearch.newkey/
mirrorlist=http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=updates-released-f$releasever.newkey&arch=$basearch
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-8-and-9-$basearch

Just change the line to enabled=0 and that repo won't be checked.

Once you limit all your repos down to one do a:

Code:

yum clean all

This will clear yum up and give you a fresh pallete! Then do a:

Code:

yum update

Hope this helps!

harry2006 · 11-01-2008, 08:15 AM

As cuco76 mentioned ,using one repo at a time must 've fixed your problem. Are you still facing the same problem? hope not.