[WBEL-users] up2date error

[Philip R. Schaffner]

On Tue, 2004-10-12 at 11:29 -0600, Mike Staver wrote:
> Ok, so running this:
> 
> yum update
> 
> That just updates all packages on my server that need updating? I'm new 
> to yum, and when I tried that command it ended up running for like an 
> hour just downloading things - should I continue to let it do that?

If you haven't been running yum, it will have to download a LOT of
headers first.  Can take a very long time, particularly if not on a fast
connection.  The resolution of dependencies and package downloads may
also take quite a while if you have a lot of packages to update.  Let it
run.

Phil