Re: [CentOS] Updates offered annoyance

2010-08-25 Thread Kahlil Hodgson
On 26/08/10 00:03, Todd Denniston wrote: > And if you are maintaining more than one machine at home, you need to realize > that you don't need to > waste the time twice to update the same thing on two machines. Assuming your > home machines are > networked together. Good Point. I run a 'fat' s

Re: [CentOS] Updates offered annoyance

2010-08-25 Thread Lamar Owen
> My 'work' is at home (dialup). The local library is only good for > about 1.5mbits/sec (about 150kbytes/sec). I don't have enough free > disk space for a full repo on either my laptop or my desktop. While not currently supported by the main CentOS project (AFAIK), there are presto repos out t

Re: [CentOS] Updates offered annoyance

2010-08-25 Thread Robert Heller
At Wed, 25 Aug 2010 16:28:04 +0200 CentOS mailing list wrote: > > On Wed, August 25, 2010 16:19, Robert Heller wrote: > > At Wed, 25 Aug 2010 14:41:11 +0100 CentOS mailing list > > wrote: > > > >> > >> Robert, > >> > >> On 25 August 2010 14:24, Robert Heller wrote: > >> > The main problem is

Re: [CentOS] Updates offered annoyance

2010-08-25 Thread Rajagopal Swaminathan
Greetings, On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 7:49 PM, Robert Heller wrote: > > My 'work' is at home (dialup).  The local library is only good for > about 1.5mbits/sec (about 150kbytes/sec).  I don't have enough free > disk space for a full repo on either my laptop or my desktop. > Perhaps it's time for y

Re: [CentOS] Updates offered annoyance

2010-08-25 Thread Giles Coochey
On Wed, August 25, 2010 16:19, Robert Heller wrote: > At Wed, 25 Aug 2010 14:41:11 +0100 CentOS mailing list > wrote: > >> >> Robert, >> >> On 25 August 2010 14:24, Robert Heller wrote: >> > The main problem is that yum is NOT well written to deal with a slow >> > and *unreliable* dial-up interfa

Re: [CentOS] Updates offered annoyance

2010-08-25 Thread Robert Heller
At Wed, 25 Aug 2010 14:41:11 +0100 CentOS mailing list wrote: > > Robert, > > On 25 August 2010 14:24, Robert Heller wrote: > > The main problem is that yum is NOT well written to deal with a slow > > and *unreliable* dial-up interface -- it in fact behaves extremly > Grab a copy of a reposit

Re: [CentOS] Updates offered annoyance

2010-08-25 Thread Todd Denniston
Les Mikesell wrote, On 08/25/2010 08:29 AM: > On 8/25/10 7:14 AM, Aleksandar Stoisavljevic wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> I downloaded latest CentOS 5.5 DVD i386 image from one of FTP's in a list. >> >> I've burned that image to DVD and created new DVD to use for fresh >> installations. >> Now when I ins

Re: [CentOS] Updates offered annoyance

2010-08-25 Thread Hakan Koseoglu
Robert, On 25 August 2010 14:24, Robert Heller wrote: > The main problem is that yum is NOT well written to deal with a slow > and *unreliable* dial-up interface -- it in fact behaves extremly Grab a copy of a repository at work, copy it home and set up a local repository. Yum will be perfectly h

Re: [CentOS] Updates offered annoyance

2010-08-25 Thread Robert Heller
At Wed, 25 Aug 2010 07:19:25 -0500 CentOS mailing list wrote: > > > > On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 02:14:02PM +0200, Aleksandar Stoisavljevic wrote: > > > > This is ok when I have good internet speed (@work) but when I am home, this > > update takes a lot of time. > > Welcome to life on th

Re: [CentOS] Updates offered annoyance

2010-08-25 Thread Les Mikesell
On 8/25/10 7:14 AM, Aleksandar Stoisavljevic wrote: > Hi all, > > I downloaded latest CentOS 5.5 DVD i386 image from one of FTP's in a list. > > I've burned that image to DVD and created new DVD to use for fresh > installations. > Now when I install fresh CentOS 5.5 (in VM) I am getting info that

Re: [CentOS] Updates offered annoyance

2010-08-25 Thread John R. Dennison
On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 02:14:02PM +0200, Aleksandar Stoisavljevic wrote: > > This is ok when I have good internet speed (@work) but when I am home, this > update takes a lot of time. Welcome to life on the internet. > I guess I can skip updates but I wasn't experiencing such annoyance w

[CentOS] Updates offered annoyance

2010-08-25 Thread Aleksandar Stoisavljevic
Hi all, I downloaded latest CentOS 5.5 DVD i386 image from one of FTP's in a list. I've burned that image to DVD and created new DVD to use for fresh installations. Now when I install fresh CentOS 5.5 (in VM) I am getting info that there are 50 packages updates. This is ok when I have good inter