> It would be good to improve the situation, but as was discussed in the > past, yum does not seem to work very well on the XO. Manually tracking > the relevant upstream security updates would require some effort.
My own preference is to not work with "static" software - but to apply as many updates as possible. [On the hope that more existing bugs are being fixed than new bugs being introduced.] Accordingly, I constantly use yum to apply whatever RPMs are available in the usual repositories. The only time this got me into trouble was when I had to revert to an older "OLPC" Network Manager (though its package name omitted the string 'olpc'). because at that time the more-recent "Fedora" Network Manager lacked some code that the OLPC depended upon. [I also make sure to NOT apply a "plain" kernel if a build was originally compiled to include an "olpc" kernel.] I run my XO systems with an external swap partition (and with enough room in /var/cache/yum) - and yum works well for me even when applying more than 70 package updates at one time. mikus _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
