can I use yum to download to a holding place and then update othermachines with the dl files

Thomas Cameron thomas.cameron at camerontech.com
Mon Apr 25 18:33:27 UTC 2005


> Don't need to do that anymore.
> Up2date is fairly smart these days, and if you setup a directory [CD,
> share, etc] and tell up2date that you want it to look in this
> directory for packages before downloading, you can update any packages
> that you have on your CD, share, etc.
> A better thing would be to have a DVD burner handy and mirror a yum
> server for the updates and burn them to DVD once in a while.

Did you actually read the article?  I outlined how to mirror the updates 
from a fast mirror.  The rest (burn to DVD or CD) the OP seemed to already 
understand.

Thomas 




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