Good Result With Local Yum Repo (FC3 -> 4)

[Michael A. Peters]

On Wed, 2005-06-15 at 15:16 -0400, David Cary Hart wrote:
> FWIW:
> 
> I know that this is not supported but I have updated a couple of
> machines with yum after creating a local (LAN) respository, installing
> fedora-release-4-2.noarch.rpm and using a custom (baseurl) localyum.conf
> file.
> 
> The last time I tried this was with yum-arch which is now deprecated by
> createrepo.
> 
> So far, nothing appears to be broken. YMMV! YMMV! 

I also did the same thing for one machine - it's headless and so
installing from an install CD would have been a real PITA. Worked
flawlessly. Though I was scared for a moment because when I rebooted it,
I couldn't ping it. Then I remembered I had burned a Knoppix CD in it
and never removed it :D