Great, didn't know that about rpmfusion now doing el7. Anyone know if
nux-desktop repo and rpmfusion can be mixed together? It's not mentioned
on their FAQ.
On 2017-01-26 21:32, John Pilkington wrote:
> 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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