Problem upgrading larger packages on dialup

[David Timms]

Nigel Henry wrote:
> I'm having problems upgrading larger packages (vlc, mplayer) from freshrpms on 
> my dialup connection. I have no problems with smaller packages. Is there some 
> sort of timeout, where I have only so long to download each package?
Without reading your whole post, and not knowing your distro/version, or 
which mirror you are retrieving from:

set /etc/yum.conf keepcache=1
yum install yum-downloadonly
yum --downloadonly update
until it has all rpms pre-downloaded
then repeat without the --downloadonly.

This should {eventually, if you have issues} get all the rpms your 
machine needs to complete the update.

DaveT.