up2date -- advice sought

[Timothy Murphy]

I am running Fedora on a number of computers.
To date I have "up2date"d each of them separately,
but this obviously involves download duplication.

So this time I gave the command
up2date -d --tmpdir=/opt/Fedora
(a directory I had created).

(1) Now I have the downloaded files in /tmp/Fedora .
I know I could just run say "rpm -Uvh *.rpm" in that directory.
But is this the correct thing to do?

(2) I'm not clear if up2date keeps a record of downloaded RPMs
other than the list in /var/log/rpmpkgs*.
Can installing packages "by hand", ie by rpm,
cause any confusion?

(3) Do the files in /opt/Fedora represent a valid "repository"?
If so, what entry do I add to /etc/sysconfig/rhn/sources
to make up2date look in /opt/Fedora ?
Also. if this entry appears first,
will up2date look there,
and then look at the "standard" entries, eg
==============================
yum updates-released 
http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/1/i386/
==============================

Any suggestions or advice gratefully received.

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Timothy Murphy  
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