OffLine Updates

[Michael Schwendt]

On Mon, 23 Aug 2004 14:15:34 -0700, Richard E Miles wrote:

> > A few months ago I downloaded all the updates and loaded them onto a CD. 
> >   Now a colleague want to set up a system off line (that may go online 
> > to a bandwidth limited account later).
> > 
> > What I want to do is loan him my CD and have, say, yum use the CD to 
> > update his system?
> > 
> > Alternatively is ther some sort of shell script that I can use that will 
> > check that he has a particular package installed then upgrade it if 
> > necessary.
> > 
> > Does rpm -U -all check packages first?
> > 
> > Michael
> 
> As far as I know yum will not update from a cd. It uses the download repositories to download and update your system via rpm.

You can mount the CD, run yum-arch in a writable directory above the mount
point and point yum.conf to that location.

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