On Thursday, July 20, 2006 @ 11:46 AM, I wrote:
On Wednesday, July 19, 2006 @ 10:25 PM, Basil Chupin wrote:
BandiPat wrote:
On Wednesday 19 July 2006 21:45, Basil Chupin wrote:
Clint, If you are comfortable with YUM in Fedora, you might also want to stick with that in SuSE. I have been using KYum recently with the added advantage of YUM from the command line and find it to be quite efficient! I've looked a Smart, but wanted a KDE interface where KYum fits that requirement nicely. I also felt the need to get away from a mono programmed YOU.
YUM seems to be quite a good program for updating. The only thing I wasn't prepared for was that it downloads all the update files first before installing, where YOU does them individually. Otherwise, I'm becoming a YUM convert! :-) Sorry, I am jumping in in the middle of a thread and haven't read
BandiPat wrote: [...] previous postings but happened to read what you said about YOU in this last paragraph.
"Where YOU does them individually." This is something which I find totally mindboggling but then I may not know the full story behind how YOU actually works.
In SuSE prior to 10.1 YOU would download ALL the update packages before applying them to the system. In 10.1 this suddenly changed and the updates are applied as they are received.
Basil, got my updaters mixed up. YOU, the security updater, still performs as it did before, but Yast2 updater, zmd, rug or whatever it is now, downloads, then updates/installs each file as it gets them. Smart and YUM both download all files then installs.
Sorry about the confusion.
Ah, OK, so YOU is still working the intelligent way :-) .
Cheers.
Well, I don't think it is. I've been launching "Online Update" (i. e. YOU) to do my updates because the new "Software Updater" has not been working for me for some time (they're supposed to have it fixed with a patch pretty soon). Unless my short term memory is really bad (possible), then it looked like "Online Update" downloaded and installed each update one at a time each time I ran it. I'll pay closer attention next time, but I'm pretty sure I'm remembering this correctly.
Greg Wallace
Well, looks like YOU is slightly more sophisticated than I had thought. Today, I ran YOU to see if there were any patches. First, it downloaded and installed a single Yast package and then popped up a message saying I should run YOU again. This happened again on that update. Only on the third update did it download and install more or less 20 updates. So, it looks like it at least attempts to get the Yast patches installed and updated before trying to handle other packages. Greg Wallace -- Check the headers for your unsubscription address For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq@suse.com