Re: successful 7.3 update through yumex
I'm fine with nux-desktop also, wasn't planning on switching. Was just wondering if they were mixable, but seems can't be sure. On 2017-01-27 14:49, James M. Pulver wrote: Why would you want to use rpmfusion over nux? I've had great success anyway with nux. James Pulver CLASSE Computer Group Cornell University On 01/26/2017 03:59 PM, John Pilkington wrote: On 26/01/17 20:42, Maarten wrote: 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. Quote from the announcement on the rpmfusion list - I forget how to get a link: "While bootstrapping the EL7 repo, we've tried to look at existing work, specially from the nux repo. Unfortunately we haven't received any direct help from this contributor." I ought to say that the nux packages have worked well for me. .. and back on topic - if Yasha had his local repo enabled he should already have the packages he wants. I didn't/don't. 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
Re: successful 7.3 update through yumex
Why would you want to use rpmfusion over nux? I've had great success anyway with nux. James Pulver CLASSE Computer Group Cornell University On 01/26/2017 03:59 PM, John Pilkington wrote: On 26/01/17 20:42, Maarten wrote: 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. Quote from the announcement on the rpmfusion list - I forget how to get a link: "While bootstrapping the EL7 repo, we've tried to look at existing work, specially from the nux repo. Unfortunately we haven't received any direct help from this contributor." I ought to say that the nux packages have worked well for me. .. and back on topic - if Yasha had his local repo enabled he should already have the packages he wants. I didn't/don't. 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
Re: successful 7.3 update through yumex
On 26/01/17 20:42, Maarten wrote: 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. Quote from the announcement on the rpmfusion list - I forget how to get a link: "While bootstrapping the EL7 repo, we've tried to look at existing work, specially from the nux repo. Unfortunately we haven't received any direct help from this contributor." I ought to say that the nux packages have worked well for me. .. and back on topic - if Yasha had his local repo enabled he should already have the packages he wants. I didn't/don't. 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
Re: successful 7.3 update through yumex
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
Re: successful 7.3 update through yumex
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
