On 26/01/17 20:02, Yasha Karant wrote:
> Yesterday afternoon, I did a successful update from production 7.2 to
> production 7.3 through yumex. In addition to the SL production
> repositories, I use the epel, elrepo, and google-chrome repositories for
> specific add-ons, including nvidia support. I only use kernels from
> SL. Although the update was slow, it taking a very long time for the
> nvidia portion to complete cleanup (I left after a 5 minute wait), when
> I came back this morning, everything appears to be working, including
> applications that have not been touched since I first installed SL 7
> (e.g., UCSF chimera, Weizmann grace). The machine to which this was
> done has a 802.3 wired connection to a USA university research
> backbone. The next thing to update is my laptop that has a 802.11
> connection to a production network, significantly lower data rate. Is
> there any way to get a list of the required RPMs, download and burn
> these to a DVD, and then have yumex use the DVDs, only going to the
> network to get additional RPMs that turn out to be needed?
>
> Yasha Karant
>
# cat /var/log/yum.log ?
yumex History shows I had 453 packages initially, then 86 more security
packages after a reboot. I also had 1 auto and one manual update of the
same google-chrome-stable package earlier today. Seems strange.
rpmfusion announced support for el7 today. Switching from nux looks as
if it could be 'interesting'
John P
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