On 10/27/07, Xiaofan Chen wrote: > Now I am in the process of 2nd round of updating the Fedore Core 7 > upgrade. The first round is about 200MB. This one is about 400MB. > Not so sure about the 3rd round (KDE, OpenOffice and tetex > and they are useful occasionally). I always used the multiple CD > or DVD edition for Fedora Core Linux (so far FC3/4/5/6/7) and I > follow the standard installation which install many packages by default. > I have not touched the installation and already two packages failed the > dependency test for upgrading (BackupPC and Gnomegames) and > I will remove them. > > I am using the same mirror (ftp://mirror.pacific.net.au) for FC7 and > Ubuntu installations. It seems to me Synaptic/apt is faster than > yumex/yum even if the amount of upgrade is the same. Maybe RPM > dependency checking takes more time than deb. I am not sure. > Just finished the 2nd round. Looks like I will have another two rounds of update process. I just checked I need to download 579MB for the remaining updates and again 3 packages failed the dependency test. Take note this is a fresh install from the downloaded DVD ISO. Xiaofan -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist