[Dextrose] upgrading XOs

[Gary Martin]

On 28 Oct 2010, at 02:09, David Farning <dfarning at gmail.com> wrote:

> At the risk of sounding really stupid....
> 
> When upgrading to dextrose why don't we use 'yum update' to update the
> the core sugar package?  That seems simpler then carrying around a usb
> stick and disrupting class.

If you have a good high bandwidth connection to the mirrors, and not many machines to upgrade, it may be possible (remember even just running the first yum will trigger 15-25Mb of package index to be downloaded). However I find anything more than a trivial yum will lock up an XO-1, or fail part way due to lack of swap space; example 1 I could not update Etoys 4.x using yum as it was 2mb larger than the yum cache space; example 2, vim and git are usually the first things I add to a fresh XO install, but I yum install them one at a time, and try to use the text console not from inside Terminal, so as to avoid OOM lockups. 

Regards,
--Gary 

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