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David Cary Hart wrote:<br>
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<pre wrap="">On Mon, Feb 07, 2005 at 03:30:57PM -0500, jim lawrence wrote:
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<pre wrap="">just for curiosity sake, i went to check the date of the ISO for DL
from redhats site
[ ] FC3-i386-disc1.iso 03-Nov-2004 17:05 617M
[ ] FC3-i386-disc2.iso 03-Nov-2004 17:07 638M
[ ] FC3-i386-disc3.iso 03-Nov-2004 17:08 637M
[ ] FC3-i386-disc4.iso 03-Nov-2004 17:10 386M
[ ] FC3-i386-rescuecd.iso 03-Nov-2004 16:59 76M
[ ] MD5SUM 03-Nov-2004 18:00 791
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<pre wrap="">Why would i want to DL these and then do 300 + updates after a
install, why doesn't these ISO's get updated every month?
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Are you volunteering to compile and test interim distributions?
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I presume the updated RPMs we get with yum/up2date/synaptic/etc. have
been compiled and tested individually, and against the most up to date
versions of the other packages in the repositories. <br>
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On most of my machines, synaptic and yum don't work: no network
connection. Even worse, a couple of my friends really like the
FC1/Planet CCRMA installations I set up for them, but depend on dial-up
modems. I burned FC3 ISO images for them, but the initial update is
really painful over a dial-up line.<br>
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Is there a way I can collect all updated RPMs on this machine, and
create apt-enabled (or yum-enabled) CD image(s) to bring to non-network
machines? I don't usually need up-to-date ISO images, but would really
like to be able to mirror repositories locally. Rather than releasing
the entire updated system, monthly releases of update CD's would be
nice.<br>
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I know how to use apt-get for download only, but this gets RPMs that
don't interface with the package manager properly. Is there a tool to
create the additional data that apt/yum need? So far yahoo/google
hasn't revealed such a tool, but repository managers must be using one.<br>
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In addition, I have a desktop machine which won't boot with FC3 (it
does work with FC1/2). I've been told I need to install a 2.6.10
kernel to fix problems with this MB. But If I boot from the rescue
disc, I can't unmount it to read from a CD with the kernel RPM on it.
I'm planning on solving this problem by pulling the hard drive, and
installing it in this machine temporarily.<br>
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