OffLine Updates

[Richard E Miles]

> > > 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.
> 
> 'rpm -Fvh *.rpm' usually is sufficient (except for updates that
> introduce new depencies)
> 
> If you'd like to use yum - you can always create a local repository
> for these updates (perhaps create this info & burn it into the CD)
> 
> To use the updates on cd via yum, the process would be:
> 
> - by whatever means - create a local repository location.
> For eg:
> mkdir /tmp/yum-local-repo
> cd /tmp/yum-local-repo
> cp /mnt/cdrom/*.rpm . [or ln -s /mnt/cdrom]
> 
> - Now create the yum header info
> yum-arch .
> 
> - Add this new repository location to /etc/yum.conf
>  
> [local-updates]
> name=Local Udates via CD/copy
> baseurl=file:///tmp/yum-local-repo
> 
> - Now 'yum update' should work.
> 
> Satish
> 
> 

Thanks very much Satish. I didn't know about yum-arch. I learn something new with
linux everyday.
-- 
Richard E Miles
Federal Way WA.
registered linux user 46097